Sentences with phrase «not album sales»
They encouraged their fans to record shows and trade tapes; they built a mailing list and sold concert tickets directly to fans; and they built their business model on live concerts, not album sales.
https://www.davidmeermanscott.com/ Not exact matches
The Black Eyed Peas frontman is not just a musician with 33 million album sales, but an entrepreneur, innovator and philanthropist.
Adele's album sales likely got a boost from the Grammy winner's decision to not stream the album on Spotify alongside her earlier records, 19 and 21.
The sales numbers reflect the wide appeal of the emotional and personal ballads by the 27 year - old British singer, as well as the decision by her independent record company XL Recordings not to make the album available for streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and Google Play.
«So long as he correctly reported his income from the album sale,» Bayer tells CNBC Make It, «it doesn't matter if he got paid in pesos, euros, drachma or bitcoin.»
Like Swift, the labels don't like Spotify's free service because it cannibalizes album sales, and pays less in royalties than the subscription product does.
Well, a star to us, because we're the record store clerks of baseball fans, and we don't pay attention to album sales.
I haven't done the research but I'm sure with the release of the album, black eye - liner sales soared.
They have our album here» - but sales aren't too promising.
Through her first three records, Lights built an incredibly passionate fan base, selling out tours around the world, earning 150M in streams, over 250K in album sales, three JUNO Awards including a 2018 win for Pop Album of the Year, and three Gold album certifications; not to mention the 2M + rabid fans who follow her every move online.
Every year, another entertainer can't understand why album sales or theater tickets weren't as strong as the year before.
So when compiling their list, Amazon made a point of counting not just CD sales, but also digital downloads of songs and albums — and even purchases of old vinyl records!
Its not a one to one comparison (as John has argued) album sales aren't the only income source for musicians.
I'm hoping that sales will drive a second album, just hope it doesn't take another 15 years.
When I was a kid, the stores were not even allowed to open; the sales started on the 27th, when we would all line up in front of Sam the Record Man to get the latest albums at big discounts.
Up through 2008, it's estimated that «Stairway» earned Zeppelin some $ 562 million in royalties and album sales, which is enough to build several stairways to heaven not to mention the moon.
Recent surveys have shown that people who download copyrighted music are * MORE * likely to purchase it, contrary to the RIAA's claims of lost sales, and most artists today earn their living through concerts and merchandise, not from royalties on their albums.
This directly contradicts the much cited and controversial conclusion of Andersen and Frenz... AF claimed that the data showed ``... no association between the number of P2P files downloaded and CD album sales,» claiming therefore that ``... this paper show (sic) that P2P file - sharing is not to blame for the decline in CD markets.
I can think of a perfectly good, and far more believable, alternative explanation: CDs are a dying format, and when their only value is as an intermediate step (manual ripping, metadata tagging, and album art sourcing still required) towards listening to the songs on them on a tiny flash memory - based playback device, sales will decline as alternative sources become available that don't require the extra effort, don't junk up shelves with unwanted packaging, don't cost as much to buy, etc..
While some artists are not happy with the music subscription - based business model, it seems to be quickly taking over, replacing methods such as physical media and digital album and track sales.
The new Bond film «Spectre», Adele's record - breaking album «25,» brisk camera sensor sales, and Playstation 4 sales that broke the 30 million unit ceiling within two years of launch are what made Sony money in 2015, not Xperia devices.