http://www.billboard.com/biz/article...rred-lines-top


Digital Songs download: down 6%
Physical album: down 14%
Digital Album: down 1%
-------------(Physical + Digital Album: down 8%)


Have all 3 peaked?

The only thing that is up is streaming revenue. Streaming Revenue in the USA might reach $1.5 billion in 2013. Last year #

Streaming Revenue 2012: $1,032.8 million USD (up 59%)
Singles Download Revenue 2012: $1,623.6 million USD (up 6.7%)

There are 4 main components to record sales in the USA

-Physical Album
-Digital Album
-Digital Songs Download
-Streaming

It's very possible that Streaming might be the biggest of the 4 components in the near future.

Nothing special.

I think soon they will be in change Billboard Hot 100 formula with illegal downloads.

I'm gonna start buying my faves physical albums so it may go up this year

Wouldn't people just download the same song multiple times?? It wouldn't work imo

Not shocking, but soon enough physical copies won't even be a thing.

I think we are seeing the transition to streaming.

From 1973 to 2012

Plus it wouldn't help the image of the artist, they just have to do something with it or else revenues will keep falling down

Why? The Hot 100 has Sales + Radio + Streaming, there is no need to all illegal sales to the list.

and even if they want to, how can they?

Who will report the illegal downloads sales to Billboard? and can the number be trusted from illegal websites, t orrent sites, blog sites, file locker sites etc...?

And Billboard wouldn't want to do something that would add legitimacy to illegal downloads.

Honestly the bbh100 & 200 are gonna be obsolete one day. No matter what formula

Streaming is the future although I still prefer buying physical CDs.

I think in like 5 years they will forget about downloads and just count steaming. Coz I mean streaming says a lot about the popularity of the song/artist so why not?

I do wonder how artist's will even make much from streaming , I guess touring is the way then ...

What's happened with ringtones and mastertones? Funny how they were relevant for like a few years and are now gone. They sold big tho.

that would be so dumb.

I cant.

wow at that progress

Understanding how much the artists would earn from streaming only would be interesting, it is true they are paid less for every streaming than for every song downloaded but it is also true that every streaming is taken into account and not only the first one.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/12/...tist-payments/


http://www.billboard.com/biz/article...-data-commerce




If you're an indie artist that own all the rights, your catelog on Spotify need to be listened to around 16 million times to get $100,000 in royalties.

16,000,000 listens x $0.006 = $96,000
16,000,000 listens x $0.007 = $112,000

Some of the more popular indies are making good money from Spotify.

Take HAIM for example

Their top 4 songs

Falling 10 million stream x $0.007 = $70,000
Don't Save Me 8.6 million stream x $0.007 = $60,200
The Wire 8 million streams x $0.007 = $56,000
Forever 7 million streams x $0.007 = $49,000

as more people listen to their music, they will earn more.

I hope physical albums never go away but this sure does not give me hope.