What kind of crazy fucked-up world do we live in where Katy Perry’s Olympic anthem is exclusive to Apple Music yet freely available to stream on YouTube/Vevo? This is why the music industry is losing its battle with YouTube and the government, it’s a self-dealing only for cash enterprise that puts the fan last. No […]

There’s no buzz. How long until HBO cancels Bill Simmons? It’s gonna happen, hell, the new regime scrapped the second season of “Vinyl” after the show had already been picked up. You see the ratings sucked. And TV lives by statistics, they trump friends every time. Sure, it’s great to be in business with Mick […]

It’s 6.4% per month, which is three times that of Spotify. And the hardest thing is to get people to resubscribe, it’s like getting back together with an old love, you kicked the tires, you had some fun, but overall it just wasn’t worth it, you’re looking for something better. If you’re looking for something […]

BuzzAngle MidYear Report In other words, Spotify, et al, beat YouTube, et al. There were 114,226,566,336 audio streams and 95,172,077,123 video streams. Last year there were 54,961,808,648 audio streams and 77,297,473,064 video streams. Audio streams increased by 107.8% and video streams by 23.1%. But the music industry is still fighting the last war. Focusing on […]