Posts Tagged ‘ Music ’
Google is expected to launch their music service this afternoon, so we decided to look at some of Google’s history with the Music category. Of course we all know that the majority of people start with Google for search – last month, 71% of all searches took place on Google. Out of the top 1000 [...][ READ MORE ]
Immediately after Michael Jackson’s death, sales surged as fans purchased music and DVDs from the King of Pop in both physical and digital formats. Jackson’s music quickly topped the sales charts on retailers like iTunes and Amazon. Last week, the search term ‘michael jackson albums’ ranked 16th among the search terms driving traffic to Amazon. [...][ READ MORE ]
Ticketmaster agreed to pay $350,000 to Springsteen fans after redirecting potential ticket buyers to their subsidiary website, TicketsNow, offering tickets at a substantially higher price during a sale for two upcoming concerts in May. Over 2,000 fans filed complaints with the New Jersey Attorney General’s office following the event, which also prompted a negative response [...][ READ MORE ]
Yesterday my colleague Heather wrote a blog post about the top searches on YouTube; which are dominated by music-related searches. Along those same lines, I have been monitoring the top websites receiving traffic from a portfolio of 1300 band & artist names over the past few months to identify the top music destinations. The largest [...][ READ MORE ]
Last week we issued a news release titled Coldplay’s Free Single Propels Website to #1 Online Among Bands and Artists. We found that U.S. visits to Coldplay.com increased 19 fold on the back of the band’s new single, Violet Hill, being released for free online. On April 29, 2008, the day the single was released [...][ READ MORE ]
On Wednesday, everyone that is heading out to the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in two weeks received the news of a surprise addition to the line-up – Prince. Coachella is always surrounded by rumors about the line-up and potential to almost impossible reunions, such as The Smiths, before the official announcements are made [...][ READ MORE ]
A recent Reuters article discussed the missed opportunity by the music industry to capitalize upon searches for bands & artists that result in a visit to Wikipedia. A typical search result on a band or musician will display their own website, MySpace profile, and Wikipedia entry. For the majority of the most-searched bands & artists, [...][ READ MORE ]
I noticed a few weeks ago that US Internet searches for “itunes” had overtaken searches for “free music downloads”. As you can see from the following chart, the share of US Internet searches for “free music downloads” and “itunes” follow a similar pattern. Over the holidays searches for “itunes” and “free music downloads” spike as [...][ READ MORE ]
Last month Heather Hopkins, our VP of Research in the UK illustrated how Hitwise data could reveal the “tipping point” of music talent (or when a band or artist would break into the mainstream) by looking at the traffic source of a band’s official website (here). First, I’m a big fan of Malcolm Gladwell’s “Tipping [...][ READ MORE ]
I’ve been using Pandora, the “music discovery service” powered by the Music Genome Project, on and off during the past year and today took a look at how it compares against a similar service, Last.fm. Pandora allows you to create radio stations based on your artist and song preferences and plays music you may not [...][ READ MORE ]
