RESEARCH: WHERE DO PEOPLE CONSUME MUSIC

I have found a infographic showing the music preferences of people in the people's poll in 2008 which was conducted my LM radio. This research has shown me that technology is advancing and more and more people are using portable devices such as phones rather than CDs to listen to music. This Infographic also shows that 74.3% of consumers need to know the name of the singer and song title when it comes to their favourite tunes. Therefore I will make sure that the song name and band name is clearly present so that consumers can instantly recognise the name and band. This will be particlulary evident on my album and magazine advert.


  

It's all about the music infographic by IMmagazine.

 

 

 

Apple iTunes Store sets new record with 25bn downloads

 

Music lovers have downloaded a record 25billion songs from the Apple iTunes Store, the Cupertino-based company has announced.

Monkey Drums (Goksel Vancin Remix) by Chase Buch became the landmark 25th billionth song to be downloaded earlier this month. It was purchased by Phillip Lüpke from Germany who will receive a €10,000 (£6,400) iTunes Gift Card from Apple. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of internet software, said more than 15,000 songs were being downloaded per minute across the world from the online music store.

‘We are grateful to our users whose passion for music over the past ten years has made iTunes the number one music retailer in the world,’ he said. ‘The iTunes Store connects music fans with their favourite artists, including global sensations like Adele and Coldplay and new artists like The Lumineers, on a scale we never imagined possible.’

Alex Ostrovsky, from Michigan, made the billionth download in 2006 – Coldplay’s Speed Of Sound.
He received ten iPods, a new iMac, and £6,400 in iTunes credit and a personal call from Apple founder Steve Jobs, who once described his creation as a ‘groundbreaking solution’ for both consumers and artists’.  Available in 119 countries, the iTunes Store is the world’s most popular music store with a catalogue of over 26million songs.