By Ryan Van Etten on 02/03/2011
If you’re color blind then this is going to hurt. Based on estimated traffic data from Compete, this visualization depicts web-based music consumption in the U.S. in 2010. Included are sites where music is streamed or downloaded. YouTube, SoundCloud, OurStage, Bandcamp, Grooveshark, ReverbNation, and Vevo all saw notable change in 2010.
Posted in Editorial, Music, Music Flux, News, Popular, Visual | Tagged 2010 year in review, 2010-2011 blizzard series, 8tracks, band websites, bandcamp, Beatport, big media, blip.fm, CDBaby, comparison, consumption, deezer, downloads, Eminem, emusic, Grooveshark, heat map, Hype Machine, iLike, Indaba Music, infographic, iTunes, jamendo, Justin Bieber, last.fm, MOG, most popular apps, music discovery, music industry, music on demand, Napster, NIN, NPR, ourstage, pandora, Pirate Bay, Pitchfork, project playlist, PureVolume, ReverbNation, Rhapsody, Rolling Stone, SHOUTcast, Slacker Radio, songza, SoundCloud, Spotify, stats, streaming, Sysomos, Taylor Swift, Thumbplay Music, trivia, Vevo, visualization, We Are Hunted, we7, YouTube |
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/01/2010
Terry McBride—CEO of Nettwerk—talks here about imagination. He argues that with music, context trumps content because music creates emotional bookmarks in our mind. Simply, the song is an emotion. These emotional bookmarks are significant because they enable us to travel backwards in our memories to when we experienced the music. Consumers are in control of the music industry, and access rules.
Posted in Music, Music Flux, News, Popular | Tagged access vs. ownership, app stores, Apple, artist-fan relationship, arts, behavior, business, cloud, consumption, content, context, copyright law, crowdsourcing, digital, digital valets, downloads, emotion, emotional attachment, imagination, iPhone, ipod, live music, music industry, music ventures, MusicBiz, Nettwerk, P2P, positivity, psychology, pull, recession, revenue, smartphones, social music, Spotify, streaming, TED, TEDxVancouver, Terry McBride, venture capital, video |
By Ryan Van Etten on 09/24/2009
It’s 2009. Why are people are still paying for mp3 downloads when there is an abundance of awesome music available for free? Digital music is becoming more free by the minute. There is music that you can download for free—legally or illegally—and there is music that you can stream for free. I support bands that are giving their tracks away for free.
Posted in Discussion, Editorial, Music, Music Flux | Tagged Amie Street, bandcamp, bands, behavior, downloads, fans, issues, iTunes, listeners, music industry, MusicBiz, P2P, revenue, social music, streaming, why? |
