Posts Tagged ‘music’
My Funky Year in Music: 18,599 tracks, 4,188 artists, 5,533 albums (according to Last.FM)
Because I am very much into statistics, I still like using Last.FM, a music database which keeps track of the songs I enjoy via iTunes, Internet radiostations and iPod/smartphone. According to Last.FM’s summary for 2016, I listened to 18,599 tracks by 4,188 different artists and from 5,533 different albums. That makes 55 songs a day and a total listening time of 45 days, 5 hours. Top music genres: funk, soul, country, pop, and blues.
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Everything you always wanted to know about music genres but were afraid to ask!
On the amazing website Every Noise at Once you find samples of 1436 styles on one map:
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Pandora Buys Rdio To Become A Global Streaming Powerhouse
I am very glad to see that Pandora – which has been my favorite music recommendation service for at least ten years – is expanding its reach. Maybe it will even be officially available in Germany some day …
My previous praise of Pandora (in German): „Wie man das Top-Empfehlungsradio Pandora auch in Deutschland komfortabel nutzen kann“.
Pandora today announced that it was acquiring the assets of now failed subscription service Rdio. While the whispers about Rdio’s future had been building for some time, the deal is more interesting for what it says about Pandora’s plans than what it says about the state of the subscription business.
Rdio Battled Bravely And Set Innovation Standards But Fell Short
For what Rdio lacked in subscriber numbers it made up for in innovation. It continually set product and feature precedents that Spotify and others subsequently aped, and its $75 million dollar ad inventory deal with US radio giant Cumulus sets a business model blueprint that other streaming services will follow. But for all its efforts and extensive marketing efforts Rdio was simply not able to get to the same sort of level as Spotify’s 2nd tier competitors, let alone to seriously challenge Spotify itself. The music subscription business is not…
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Making YouTube Pay: YouTubers Versus Bands
Interesting analysis of YouTube phenomenon PewDiePie. The figures are fascinating: The figures are fascinating: Forbes has named Felix Kjellberg (aka PDP), as the top-earning YouTube star on the planet after earning $12 million in the past year (details in an Independent article).
This is the second in a series of YouTube generation posts. See the first one here.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Generation Edge – the under 16 millennials – and how they are driving an entire new subculture of YouTube stars that throw the traditional fandom rulebook out of the window. One of the intriguing paradoxes (or at least apparent paradoxes) is how a generation of native YouTube stars can create both vast audiences and revenue while for music artists YouTube is simply a place to build awareness and probably lose net revenue due to YouTube streams cannibalizing paid streams. So how can the model both be broken (for music) and yet buoyant for native YouTuber creators?
Compare and contrast the biggest earner in music with the biggest earner on YouTube. Taylor Swift netted $39.7 million in 2014, compared to $7.4 million…
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Crowdfunkin‘: Best of Current Funk (Spotify Playlist)
„Uptown Funk“ by Mark Ronson (feat. Bruno Mars) is one of the best current funk releases I have heard in a long time:
After mentioning this on Facebook, my funky friends recommended many other great acts to me. I threw in some additional favorites of mine and started a Spotify playlist. Put it into shuffle mode … and enjoy!
Alternatively, try this Spotify link.
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