A new web application was launched Monday, YouGov Profiles, that lets you find out the unique characteristics of fans of companies, brands and musicians. At the site, you can search for a brand, person or thing and it will show you what differentiates fans of your search term, in the terms of demographics, lifestyle, entertainment choices and more. Search… Read More Skrillex Fans Are Cat Lady Lawyers, Aphex Twin Fans Are IT Guys
via the Times UK: This is the graph the record industry doesn’t want you to see. It shows the fate of the three main pillars of music industry revenue – recorded music, live music, and PRS revenues (royalties collected on behalf of artists when their music is played in public) over the last 5 years.… Read More The Graph The Record Industry Doesn’t Want You To See
Waxy’s Andy Baio has taken a statistical look at how the record industry has changed in the last fifty years, and it looks like there’s a good reason why you hate so much mainstream pop music: the variety of pop music is less than half of what it was in the sixties: According to Billboard,… Read More Here’s Why You Hate Pop Music
According to the Recording Industry Association of America, shipments of vinyl LPs jumped more than 36 percent from 2006 to 2007, growing to more than 1.3 million. Shipments of CDs dropped more than 17 percent during the same period, to 511 million, as they lost some ground to digital formats Nearly 450 million CDs were… Read More Vinyl Sales Up By 36%
