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Things that I find interesting.
The value of liberal democracy used to be sacred in the West.
Now some people are doubting it. They’ve seen authoritarian capitalism and the way it works.
They see political leaders with the powers of juggernauts, forcing decisions through and they argue that against this, our liberal democratic values look outdated, ineffective - even an obstacle to success.
I passionately disagree. It’s these values that create the climate for innovation. Look at where the big ideas come from - the facebooks and the Spotifys - and the vast majority are from open societies.
That’s because good ideas come through freedom - free thinking and the free association of like-minded people.
David Cameron’s big ideas: Facebook and Spotify.
Spotify - 2010 Retrospective - Top 100
Interesting comparison of listening habits in Spotify across the 7 markets.
Interesting since this is as honest as it can be. A: This is actual listening, not based on purchases, and therefore an album that is loved weighs more than one which was a regretted purchase. B: This is unlimited, uncurated, unpressured: there are no limits to what you can listen to in Spotify, so nobody is restricted by radio or CD prices.
The tie-up with Sonos swung it for me. It will change the way we consume music at home.
Spotify inching in front of BBC iPlayer and Twitter for the T3 New Media Service of the Year award.
John Lennon’s solo work now on Spotify. Imagine!
Via hypebot
It takes several clicks to get to the music from the following:I tested it, it takes 2 clicks to get from a shared playlist, album or artist to music playing in Spotify, Only one click for a shared song.
- Amazon Purchase (without Account) – 14
- iTunes Purchase (without Account) – 12
- Topspin Purchase – 10
- Topspin Free Download – 5
- iTunes Purchase (with Account) – 5
- Amazon Purchase (with Account) – 5
- Start your personalized Pandora stream – 4
- Torrent (from Torrent Site) – 4
- Torrent or Download (from Google Search) – 4
- Google Onebox Stream – 3
- YouTube Searched Stream – 3
- Free Download via Email from Friend – 3
- iTunes Purchase (Promoted while signed in) – 3
- Amazon Purchase (with OneClick) – 3
During this year’s first six month Swedish recod companies and labels increased sales by 1.7 percent, according to new figures by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Lisa Cronstedt, spokeswoman at Ifpi in Sweden, said that better legal alternatives, the new “Ipred” copyright law and a good selection of music mainly explain the upswing. “Sweden is still one of the few countries in the world music with a positive sales performance”, she said. Revenues from albums dived 18 percent but still contributes for 64 percent of the record companies sales. Digital music accounts for one-third of the sale, an increase by more than 100 percent. Sales of digitally streamed music increased 242 percent during the period.
Sweden, home and launch country of Spotify, shows how it’s done. Piracy can only be fought with good alternatives.
Promoting it for free unlimited access sold twice as many downloads at iTunes, as a main page placement in iTunes. So it didn’t cannibalize at all. What we see is: the more people are streaming music, interested in music, finding out, sharing it, the more it drives all the other revenue streams for that same music product. And you know, it’s kind of the radio effect, you know, when you play, if you hear something on the radio, how come we’ve known for 50 years that if it’s played on the radio, we sell more albums. And we’re starting to see the same thing. I can do a direct correlation with what’s our best, most played songs at Spotify and I can map that exactly with downloads. It’s a one-to-one relationship.
Scott Cohen (VP of The Orchard) explains what Spotify means to rights holders.
