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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Spotify launches in US but gets less coverage than an average day for iTunes

Spotify launches in US but gets less coverage than an average day for iTunes but of course twitter shows that the media agenda is often different than the consumer and the twitter landscape was ablaze with tweets with 4 times as many mentions as iTunes.

see the graphs here...

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/digital-and-mobile/spotify-s-media-metrics-how-much-attention-1005282692.story

Friday, July 15, 2011

Adele's 21 best selling digital album ever

Adele’s album "21" is now the biggest selling digital download album in music history. Source USA Today, says 7 days after Eminem’s "Recovery" became the first album to sell more than 1,000,000 digital copies, Adele's 21 has overtaken it, selling 1,017,000m vs Eminem's 1,005,000. 21 has sold 2,600,000 copies in the U-S alone.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Spotify launches in the USA

the deal was finalised with warners and now Spotify is available in the world biggest music market... be interested to see what happens to sales and also the reaction from USA bands.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8636611/Spotify-launches-in-the-US.html