April 18, 2016
Global Recorded Music Industry Revenues 2005-2015

IFPI Data Shows Streaming Growth, but How Much?

IFPI just released its annual Global Music Report and it always creates a lot of news, but little of it goes beyond the narrative forwarded by the report. However, as with all of these releases by recording industry associations it is often worthwhile to go behind the numbers to see what is really going on and the motives behind the narrative.
March 30, 2016
US Streaming Music Revenues - RIAA Data

The Vinyl Myth and Other RIAA Data Analysis Errors

RIAA leadership is once again mis-reading the organization’s own data to suggest that vinyl is a better revenue generator than ad-supported streaming. Vinyl actually accounts for about one-third the level of ad-supported streaming and about one-sixth of streaming revenue overall.
October 15, 2015

RIAA Misleads While Advertising Delivers 54% of Internet Radio Revenue

Every few months a naïve journalist gets misled by a false narrative pushed by someone in the recording industry. Last winter it was the New York Times. More recently, Business Insider fell into a similar trap with its headline: “The music industry has made more money in 2015 from a century old technology than ad-supported streaming.”