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02 Nov 09

BBC NEWS | Technology | File-sharers are big spenders too

"People who download music illegally also spend an average of £77 a year buying it legitimately, a survey has found.

Those who claimed not to use peer-to-peer filesharing sites such as The Pirate Bay spent a yearly average of just £44.

Almost one in 10 of those questioned aged between 16 and 50 said they downloaded music illegally. "

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copyright shifts music

28 Oct 08

Music Ally | Blog Archive » Exclusive: Warner Chappell reveals Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ pot of gold

Today Warner Chappell’s Head of Business Affairs Jane Dyball will reveal that the digital publishing income from the first licence (for the Radiohead pay what you want site) alone dwarfed all the band’s previous digital publishing income and made a “mater

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shifts music culture

09 Jun 08

Rock's New Economy: Making Money When CDs Don't Sell : Rolling Stone

Cliff Burnstein, co-owner of the management firm QPrime — which represents Metallica and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as smaller acts like Silversun Pickups — says the old major-label model is fading fast. "That's definitely over," he says, noti

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media music shifts

15 Mar 08

1,700 Bands, Rocking as the CD Industry Reels - New York Times

Musicians’ livelihoods will more likely be a crazy quilt of what their lawyers would call “alternative revenue streams”: touring, downloads, ringtones, T-shirts, sponsorships, Web site ads and song placements in soundtracks or commercials.

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shifts quoteable music

08 Jul 07

All Shook Up, Right Down to the Musical Core - New York Times

According to figures released last week by Nielsen SoundScan, physical album sales decreased by 15 percent from Jan. 1 to July 1 this year, while sales of digital tracks, though still a much smaller business, rose 49 percent.

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shifts music

06 Aug 06

South by Southwest - Review - Music - New York Times

  • Why would musicians travel halfway across the country, or halfway across the world, to play a 40-minute set through a mediocre sound system for a few dozen people glancing at their cellphones? - willrich on 2006-08-06
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