Digital music long-tail not dead, says eMusic

At Popkomm 2008 last week, 24/7's Frank Taubert cast doubt on the viability of the so-called long tail of digital music, saying that two thirds of his firm's catalogue had never been played. eMusic has come out swinging on that score, with European Madeleine Milne saying they're doing pretty well out of the long tail.”3/4 of eMusic's entire four million track catalogue sells at least once every year, or to put it another way, we sell more than 50% of our catalogue at least once every quarter,” she says in a statement. “Music discovery on mobile devices may not be supporting long tail sales but the new digital music consumer is web savvy, and turns to social networks, blogs and the web to find out about new music.”Click below to read her full statement.“3/4 of eMusic's entire four million track catalogue sells at least once every year, or to put it another way, we sell more than 50% of our catalogue at least once every quarter. Contributing to the continuing success of eMusic's long tail model are the host of new Web 2.0 features that we have recently implemented which are designed to offer eMusic customers more musical context than [...]