“1 billion people now use smartphones”
Via Apple Insider
“Spotify is used by one-third of the Swedish population; piracy has decreased by 25%.”
“… what happens when our model gets to scale.” Daniel Ek, CEO Spotify via DMN
“In 2011, $3 billion was paid by Apple alone to independent app developers.”
“Most Spotify subscribers spend twice the amount of money on Spotify as the average iTunes user spends on iTunes.”
Daniel Ek (paraphrased) via Grammy.com. That’s $120 per year on Spotify vs $60 on iTunes.
“Digital music is now a $5.2 billion global industry”
With a growth of 8% in 2011. Via DMN
“Album unit sales actually grew in 2011 in the US.”
Via DMN
“Ringtones still make four times as much money as Spotify, Rdio, and Rhapsody combined…”
Ha. Via DMN
“89% of the top artists on facebook use music apps.”
On average, the top 250 artists each post 1.6 times on Facebook per day. Via a recent RootMusic study.
“There will be 50 Billion internet connect devices by 2020. Think about it.”
Via DeviceLine
“‘Lyrics’ has been the second most popular search query on Google since the company started collecting data in 2004.”
The number one search query: “facebook”. Via Vator.tv
“7 of the 10 most followed people on Twitter are musicians.”
“Of the top 50 most followed accounts, 25 are musicians or heavily music-related. Of the top 100 accounts, 44 are musicians” - See the list at DMN
“Streaming services have been crushing since Facebook integration began last month. MOG is up 264%, Rdio is up 64% and Spotify is up 35%.”
MOG saw its userbase more than triple in the last month since the FB integration. They are now at 160,000 monthly users. Spotify leads the pack with over 2 million paid subscribers. Via SAI
