U.S. Consumes Music Differently On Smartphones Than In UK & Canada 2010/4/9
A new Vision Critical study of music on smparthones in the US, UK and Canada, found major differences. While those in Canada and the UK are using apps on their smartphone or iPod Touch to listen to broadcast radio, U.S. users are more likely to listen to web-only radio and music streaming services.
Pandora was the clear leader among adults in the US who have listened to online-only radio in the past year:
Pandora 42%
Rhapsody 6%
last.fm 5%
Yahoo! (5%)
In The UK & Canada -
In the UK, where Pandora is not legally available but the music streaming service Spotify is, broadcast radio holds a clear edge for listening. A total of 31% of UK smartphone and iPod Touch users said they listened to broadcast radio in the past week using the apps on their device, compared to 21% who reported listening to web-only radio or streaming services.
In Canada, where neither Pandora nor Spotify is legally available, broadcast radio still dominates according to the study, with 14% of smartphone and iPod Touch users saying they have listened to AM or FM stations on the platform in the past week, while only half that many (7%) reported listening to web-only radio or streaming services.
Apple's iPad And iPhone By The Numbers 2010/4/9
300,000 iPads sold last Saturday
450,000 iPads were sold as of Thursday
0 iPads are left in stock Best Buy is out of stock
85,000,000 iPhone and iPod Touches have been sold
4,000,000,000 apps have been downloaded
185,000 apps are available in the official
3,500 of the apps are for theiPad
250,000 iBooks were downloaded on Saturday
600,000 iBooks were sold as of Thursday
The iPad & Music: A Weekend 1 Round Up 2010/4/5
(Update 2)
"There's something happening here.
What it is ain't exactly clear."
The iPad's first days sales including pre-orders are said to be in the 600-700,000 range according to an analysis by Piper Jaffray who now estimates first year sales could top 5.5 million. (Apple officially says that they sold 300,000) By contrast first day iPhone sales were just 270,000, in part because of supply issues.
But what all this means for music is far from clear. The iPad launched without any kind of music in the cloud service, though one appears to be in the planning stages for later this year. The potential for more robust and even interactive music experiences are enhanced with the iPad, but to date iTune's LP and imitators have shown more promise than fan interest.
Eliot Van Buskirk of Wired's Epicienter believes that the iPad could boost interactive music. ...
He sites the free Rj Voyager iPad app that "lets you modify the band’s music as if you were a sound engineer or pro DJ. The app heralds a future where users are constantly tweaking and personalizing the music they currently just listen to, and also hints at a world where music apps will adjust to a user’s surroundings through sensors on the device."
And in a warning that should sound familiar to the heads of major labels, some reviewers are reminding consumers that Apple likes to be in charge of everything that runs on its devices. In this case since all apps require Apple's approval, the iPad is a closed and even censored eco-system that could inhibit commerce and creativity.
諾基亞在中國發佈Come With Music服務：“樂隨享” 04/08/2010 ovi.com
諾基亞於今天在中國發佈了其Come With Music服務（以下簡稱為CWM）“隨樂享”，在中國的CWM與世界其它地方的最大區別在於中國諾基亞使用者下載的音樂將是免DRM保護的。諾基亞通過與華動飛天（A8）來推出中國地區的服務。目前支持X6，5230，5800w，6700s，E52，E72i等八款諾基亞手機，之前購買了這些手機的使用者也可以使用這個服務。數十萬首音樂，無限量免費下載。使用有效期為啟動開始12個月。 http://music.ovi.com/cn/zh/pc/help/comeswithmusicoverview/
Digital Economy Bill: Passed 189-47 With Piracy Measure IntactApr 7, 2010
Irate MPs passed a cut-down, sick-looking version of the Digital Economy Bill Wednesday night by 189 votes to 47 - lacking several key proposals but retaining the centrepiece provision for ISPs to act against unauthorised downloaders of copyrighted content. —The government withdrew clauses that would have extended licensing of orphaned copyright works, let Ofcom appoint regional news providers on the Channel 3 TV network and instructed Ofcom to promote investment in networks and public service content. —It also placed in to an alternative parliamentary process, which would require specific parliamentary approval but which will have to be executed after the May 6 election, a clause that would see ISPs, at copyright holders’ behest, block access to online services deemed to breach copyright. —The universal service commitment of nationwide 2Mbps broadband infrastructure appears to have vanished, though finance minister Stephen Timms said the ambition is retained: “Broadband Delivery UK is working on that at the moment. It will be in the Finance Bill that will be introduced shortly after the election.” —And the government scrapped plans, in the separate Finance Bill, for a £0.50-a-month levy on phone land lines to create an Independent Next Generation Fund, a stash any telco could bid for to part-subsidise the roll-out of truly high-speed broadband. The remaining Digital Economy Bill is now likely to get Royal Assent at parliament’s dissolution on Monday - despite widespread concern voiced tonight by MPs dismayed that they had just hours to debate it. In the key remaining provision - overseen by an Ofcom code - ISPs will, on copyright holders’ instruction, notify subscribers by letter as to their alleged transgression. If alleged infringers then persist, the ISP would sanction against them “technical measures” like speed blocks, bandwidth shaping, account suspension or other limits. It’s a landmark but, lacking ultimate talk of “disconnection”, it doesn’t go as far as France’s “three strikes” law. Read our guide to all the bill’s measures » Heavily lobbied by digital liberties activists, many MPs on Wednesday admitted they don’t understand the proposals, and suspect the measures - rather than reduce piracy - will instead punish downloaders’ parents or public WiFi operators, while abusers find workarounds. Even an MP who suffered piracy of a game he developed called the bill “inappropriate” for limiting internet access. MPs grumbled that they had insufficient time to debate the bill - indeed, they grumbled over five hours in the Commons on Tuesday and two hours on Wednesday. Several amendments proposed by Labour MP Tom Watson on Wednesday - for example, to limit its scope to P2P services - were derailed by such time-consuming interventions, and mostly were ultimately withdrawn by Watson himself. MPs are largely supportive of efforts to protect creators’ intellectual property, but the repeated extent of concern they expressed is at odds with the majority on which the bill was passed. After being told by music labels in December that a third of piracy occurs on services other than P2P, Lib Dem Lords introduced a measure under which an ISP, upon a court order sought by copyright holders, must block all its subscribers from accessing a website hosting the material. But the government, believing the measure would not be legal on a technicality, took the provision out of the bill and reinserted it as promised in a new clause that would require approval from both houses of parliament - something which cannot take place until after the election. Shadow culture minister Jeremy Hunt told the Commons on Tuesday: “Anything that becomes law as a result of the wash-up, we reserve the right to review in the event of a Conservative government.” The government’s withdrawal of the clause which would allow Ofcom to pick and pay multimedia Channel 3 news providers throws the plan for “independently-funded news consortia” (IFNC) in to disarray. The status quo - under which ITV (LSE: ITV) retains an obligation to produce regional news - now looks more likely than operating the recently-named multimedia IFNCs in three pilot regions.
2.一年一度的唱片店節（record store day）明顯的迅速發展。2008年舉辦的第一屆唱片店節使“唱片店”搜索流量增加了兩倍多。去年，以“唱片店”（同時包括“唱片店節”）為關鍵字的搜索流量增長了四倍多。大量增長的搜索流量完全可以預見今年4月17日舉行的唱片店節的成功，如果說2008與2009的兩屆活動帶來的流量增長可以預示著什麼，那便是今年的唱片店節將比去年取得更大的成功。
Interest Growing In April 17th's Record Store Day2010/4/6
Given the ongoing decline in record stores, it's exciting to hear that April 17th'sRecord Store Day is shaping up to be the biggest yet. Biggest, not just in terms of great things the stores are planning, but also in over all interest. A study of search engine traffic is also pointing to a big day according to Glenn Peoples of Billboard.biz.
You can learn more about what your local record store has planned at RecordStoreDay.com and the always way too serious Joshua Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures) shares his own deep and revealing Record Store Day insights in this short video:
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