This is an advertisement recently run by Samsung in South Korea (translations on the right). The company has now pulled the spot, and issued an apology on Facebook.
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A2IM’s Libera Awards (aka The LIBBYs) are being held on June 25th in New York. The awards honor independent labels, artists, and distributors, and they are voted on by independents.
Last year Arcade Fire and The Arctic Monkeys won Album of the Year. Daptone Records and Glassnote Records won Label of the Year. Independent Ally of the Year went to NPR music.
Nina Ulloa covers breaking news, tech, and more. Follow her on Twitter: @nine_u
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Who buys the most music? Well, the people that care most about their music and the artists that make it. But they buy a lot more than casual listeners: according to research just released by MiDIA Research, music ‘Aficionados’ account for 61% of all music purchases, whether that be recorded music, live music, music merchandise, or paid downloads.
So why isn’t that group being focused on more? According to the research, this coveted group is buying a lot less these days, mainly because there’s less reason for them to buy. “Facebook and YouTube took artist-fan engagement to the masses, but music spending is still falling,” write MiDIA’s Mark Mulligan.
“Aficionados, the super fans that drive 61% of all music sales revenue, are both being taken for granted and reducing their spend, trading down from multiple albums a month to 9.99 subscriptions.”
And here’s the worst part: these fans want to buy stuff, if only they had more reasons to buy. “These fans want more from their favorite artists: 45% think music is more than just the song, that it is also the artist’s story and 18% would pay for an interactive artist app. A new generation of music products are needed, built around interactivity, multimedia and artist subscriptions.”
More Immersive, ‘360 Degree Music Product Concept’
So aficionados will come, if only artists would build it. “A new generation of music products are needed, built around interactivity, multimedia and artist subscriptions. Products that will be radically different from their predecessors, and that will, crucially, be artist-specific, not store or service specific,” Mulligan notes. “Rights’ owners will have to overcome some major licensing and commercial issues, but the stakes are high enough to warrant the effort.”
“At risk is the entire future of premium music products and of safe guarding the spending of the super fans, without which record music revenues will dwindle into insignificance.”
Top image by nsub1, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC by 2.0). Middle image from MiDIA.
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Apple has poached BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe. His last show will air on March 5th. Lowe will then be moving to the U.S. to join Apple. He has been with the BBC since 2003.<!–/*
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Annie Mac will take over Lowe’s weekday new music radio show. She will continue to host a Friday night show.
Nina Ulloa covers breaking news, tech, and more. Follow her on Twitter: @nine_u
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