The music industry is still obsessed with charts – but is it always looking at the right data?

US consumer surveys from MusicWatch shows that measuring music’s popularity goes far beyond the Spotify charts
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100 Million Use Paid Music Streaming Services In US [MusicWatch]

Fresh off the release of RIAA revenue numbers MusicWatch shared its year-end numbers assessing the size of the US streaming market and how music listening is evolving. Among the internet using population 13 and older MusicWatch reported a record 165 million streamers in 4Q, based on listening at least one…

Surprisingly Fun Facts About Streaming Music Playlists…

A new study published last week by Music Watch, Inc. offers surprising clues as to how exactly music streamers listen to their music. Based on 500 online interviews with Spotify and Apple Music users (sorry, those who prefer Tidal) who “participate in listening to or creating playlists,” the study found, unsurprisingly, that 90 percent of […]

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Are You a Music Festival Fan? Meet the Super Fans and Hardcore Festie

While global concert and music event ticket sales are on the decline, in a post on Eventbrite’s blog, one of the world’s biggest self-service ticketing platforms, there’s a specific kind of fan that’s actually helping drive up festival revenue. In the United Kingdom, they’re known as the “super fans” and in the U.S., they’re the […]

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