UK music industry body the BPI released its half-year sales figures yesterday, revealing that album unit-sales dropped 13.8% year-on-yea to 43.6m in the first half of 2012.
June 14th, 2012 by Music Ally
A new report from Informa's Music & Copyright reveals that sales of pop music around the world increased 2.3% last year to a value of $7.5bn.
May 30th, 2012 by Music Ally
EMI has published its Consumer Report at the International Music Summit based on interviews from 750,000 dance music fans globally.
March 8th, 2012 by Music Ally
Staying ahead of the Timeline We uncover what implications the new layout on Facebook will have for artists and bands communicating with fans on the social network.
September 13th, 2011 by Music Ally
Admittedly, this may not come as a surprise to anyone who hasn't been marooned on a desert island for the last five years. But MP3tunes boss Michael Robertson told attendees at the SF MusicTech Summit...
August 19th, 2011 by Music Ally
Oh, this'll put the cat amongst the pigeons. ISPs have long argued that rather than profiting from piracy on their networks, it's actually a drain on their finances due to bandwidth costs. However, a study...
May 14th, 2010 by Music Ally
A survey by Boston Consulting Group has found 49% of respondents plan to buy a tablet or e-reader device in the next three years. 28% of them said they plan to buy one in the next year.
April 12th, 2010 by Music Ally
Amazon's senior manager of digital music Scott Ambrose Reilly is taking up a new post in the company's Kindle division, and he's got some stern words for certain elements of the music industry in his farewell...
July 14th, 2009 by Music Ally
Okay, our sister company The Leading Question asked lots of UK teenagers about their attitudes towards music - we reported on that yesterday - but now Morgan Stanley is getting teens to write reports.
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