Is there still a future for compilation albums?
The sector has long been troubled by falling physical/download sales, while streams generated by compilations are not credited to the parent album, ...
Q1 proved a trickier quarter for the biz than most of late, with plunging physical sales and the year-on-year Ed Sheeran effect slowing down the recent sales surge. Yet The ...
1.THE FOURTH AMENDMENT
The rise and rise of streaming (track streams were up another 51% on Q4 2016) meant the overall AES picture was up a healthy 4% on All ...
1 YOU’VE ALL DONE VERY WELLYes yes, cautiously optimistic. Yes yes, too early to say a corner has definitively been turned. But matched All Albums AES are up 10% ...
Market SharesIf there’s been an unusual degree of volatility in the market shares in recent quarters, things reverted to type in Q3, at least for two of the three ...
Market SharesUniversal has been unusually squeezed in the market shares in the last few quarters, but in Q2, David Hawkes declares the market-leading major to be “back in business”. ...