Research Models on Prediction of the Indie Music Industry-2. Jeff Zentner, who came to writing through music, starting his creative life as a guitarist and eventually becoming a songwriter, utilizes a panel of twelve years of data from 1996-2008 for 49 countries to see if music sales, including indie music, have been hurt more in countries […]
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Research Models on Prediction of the Indie Music Industry-1. Stevans and Sessions’ time series model uses consumer spending on physical purchases of indie music as the dependent variable and explanatory variables including personal income, price index of physical sales, price index of software, per unit price of DVDs and a time trend dummy variable holding
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Research Models on Prediction of the Indie Music Industry. Scholars created a regression model of physical music sales from 1998-2002 using a cross-section of the 16 countries with the largest markets for pre-recorded music. They define their independent variables as GDP, Downloads, Broadband, Digital Media Players, DVD Players and CD-R Players. Music scholars find that
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Scholars’ Prediction of the Indie Music Industry – 1 As people are able to listen to music on the move, new consumption opportunities are created and consumers are willing to spend more time and money listening to music. I have written about this in detail in my blog Scholars’ Prediction of the Indie Music Industry.
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Scholars’ Prediction of the Indie Music Industry. The “annihilation hypothesis” has been evaluated looking at a number of demand factors, aside from piracy, which could contribute to the decline in sales. Before turning to time series aggregate data from 1973-2002, researchers observed some of the underlying trends in the industry that may provide alternate explanations
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The Current Landscape of the Indie Music Industry. Like the record sales of indie music, the live entertainment industry has also gone through several interesting changes in the new millennium. I have written about this in detail in my blog Cloud Computing and Indie Music. An article in the ABC News noted in the early
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Cloud Computing and Indie Music. Websites dedicated to music blogs and the digital curation of new music have been emerging and gaining popularity since the beginning of the millennium. As discussed in my blog Promoting Indie Music on Social Media, this has become an effective platform for indie artists to promote and sell their work,
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Indie Music Publishing. With fierce competition, ever-growing number of music available online and online sales at an all-time low, it is becoming increasingly difficult for indie artists to depend only on money from online sales to sustain in the industry. You can read about this in detail in my blog Alternative Income for Indie Artists.
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Record Labels and Indie Music. As discussed in my blog Indie Music and the Internet, in my recent blogs I am trying to understand and evaluate the live and recorded music business with regard to the more encompassing implications of the Internet. I hope to provide some insight on the future of music industry through
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Promoting Indie Music on Social Media. Promoting indie music on social media has taken an interesting turn today, with social media and promotion being deeply and intricately intertwined. I have discussed about this in detail in my blog Digital Sales of Indie Music. Most indie artists are releasing some or all of their music online,
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