Posts under "Analysis"

Vinyl STILL on the up!

Posted in Analysis on December 10th, 2009

In what can only really be considered good news for fans of high quality music, vinyl sales have continued to rise for the 2nd year in a row, now topping out at over 2million so far this year. Some mi…

CDs Still Falling – Black Friday Figures

Posted in Analysis on November 27th, 2009

Nielsen Soundscan has just released the weekly figures from the week ending with “Black Friday”, a day known in america for being one of the biggest shopping days of the year, with many retailers offe…

Rhapsody slowly falls

Posted in Analysis on October 31st, 2009

It seems only a little while ago I was talking on here about just how well RealNetworks’ Rhapsody was doing, pushing nigh on 800,000 subscribers… but, times change. Since then free music streaming s…

Pirate Bay ISPs ISP ordered offline..

Posted in Analysis on August 27th, 2009

It has recently come to light that the industry representitives involved in preventing copyright infringement have been working very hard at taking The Pirate Bay offline at the highest possible level…

GrooveShark swims on…

Posted in Analysis on July 31st, 2009

Despite facing massive legal troubles due to partners requiring much more money in royalties than originally agreed, GrooveShark is continuing with development; including an iPhone application that ma…

GrooveShark swims on…

Posted in Analysis on July 31st, 2009

Despite facing massive legal troubles due to partners requiring much more money in royalties than originally agreed, GrooveShark is continuing with development; including an iPhone application that ma…

Musicberry? Perhaps…

Posted in Analysis on July 14th, 2009

As Apple strides gallently onward in the smartphone application distribution market (just passing 1.5billion downloads), the rest of the market tries desperately to catch up, Blackberry, with the help…

Spotify to make it portable?

Posted in Analysis on May 30th, 2009

Spotify is awesome. It is the one piece of legal music distribution I cannot fault; you can listen to music, free of charge, whenever you like, just for a couple of ads here and there. Now it's se…

3 Strikes is in for France

Posted in Analysis on May 14th, 2009

It's sad to have to post this but the "3 strikes and your out" copyright law in France has come into play. It's a seriously idiotic piece of legislation that brings copyright infring…

Spotify cranks it up in Europe

Posted in Analysis on April 30th, 2009

Spotify is one heck of a program, letting you stream music for free, with adverts occuring only every 20 mins or so. It's great for just casual listening, and has comforted a friend who lost rat…