Music industry
UK music fans snap up 65,000 cassettes in 2020
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- Tuesday, 15 September 2020
Nearly 65,000 music cassettes were sold in the UK in the first six months of 2020, according to the Official Charts Company.
Vinyl records outsell CDs in US for first time since 1980s
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- Tuesday, 15 September 2020
Report on first half of 2020 finds that vinyl makes up 62% of physical music revenue.
‘If Drake Goes Independent, the Music Business Is Done’
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- Tuesday, 15 September 2020
The industry veteran also revealed: "Drake is about to get the biggest bag in the history of the music business by far."
Post-confinement, l’industrie musicale va devoir changer
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- Tuesday, 15 September 2020
Etre parquer dans un enclos pour regarder un concert. Des artistes superstars qui retardent la sortie de leurs grands disques... Ces derniers mois, les fans de musique ont dû faire face à une série de déceptions et de bizarreries que l’industrie musicale sera heureuse d’oublier.
El año negro de la música electrónica
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- Tuesday, 15 September 2020
Ingresos del 56% menos con respecto al año pasado en la industria y alrededor de 350 festivales cancelados en el mundo.
Sony Music’s streaming revenues grew 15.6% in H1 2020
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- Tuesday, 04 August 2020
Sony’s recorded music streaming revenues reached $1.282bn in the first half of calendar 2020. That was up by 15.6% on the $1.109bn streaming haul the company posted in the same period of 2019, according to MBW’s calculations based on Sony Corp’s latest quarterly results.
Latin Music Listening Up Nearly 16% in 2020 With Bad Bunny Leading the Pack
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- Tuesday, 04 August 2020
Audio consumption of Latin music grew to 14.56 million units in the first six months of 2020, up 15.9% from the 12.6 million units registered for 2019’s midyear total. That number helped the overall growth of the genre.
Spotify hits 138m premium subscribers as growth slows
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- Tuesday, 04 August 2020
The subscriber figure was “well above expectations” and grew in all regions in the three months to June 30, Spotify revealed in its Q2 report this week.
“Concerts debout touchés en plein cœur”
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- Tuesday, 04 August 2020
Dans une lettre ouverte publiée ce 23 juillet, salles de spectacles, lieux évènementiels, tourneur·euses, artistes, syndicats, labels, festivals et indépendant·es de l'industrie musicale française se mobilisent pour demander au gouvernement “des perspectives claires et cohérentes de scenarii et des échéances [...] afin de pouvoir travailler au redémarrage de [leurs] activités”.
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