Indie rights body Merlin published some research into digital growth for its member labels yesterday, claiming that a third of them have seen streaming and subscription revenues more-than double year-on-year.
May 13th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
If you've yet to have your fill of pretty charts about Apple's iTunes, check out Asymco's latest piece of analysis on how the company's content business is growing. It brings together the most recent...
April 29th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
Strange though it may seem, given our youthful good looks, Music Ally's fortnightly digital music report was already 61 issues down when Apple launched its iTunes music store in April 2003. So how were...
April 29th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
It's been fun this weekend looking back at issue 62 of the Music Ally report (pictured), published on 9 May 2003 just after Apple had launched its iTunes music store and sold 1m tracks in its first week. "Half...
April 25th, 2013 by Music Ally
Happy birthday, iTunes Music Store. Well, almost: the store was launched on 28 April 2003 with a catalogue of 200k tracks, and went on to sell 1m downloads in its first week.
April 19th, 2013 by Music Ally
In truth, this is hardly surprising, given that Amazon sells physical and digital music in the UK, while iTunes is purely digital.
April 17th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
NPD Group has shared some stats from its latest Annual Music Study report in the US, drawing some useful conclusions about Apple's share of the music downloads market, as well as the (positive) impact...
March 25th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
Apple has long maintained that its iTunes Store is a breakeven business, with the margins made on selling music (and more recently films, TV shows, e-books and apps) cancelled out by the costs of running...
March 22nd, 2013 by Music Ally
No, not to a journalist – obviously. Apple Australia boss Tony King gave evidence this week to a parliamentary enquiry into why Australians have to pay more.
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