Stream, steal, or buy: Those are your choices. The premium streaming services represent just one batch of countless channels by which consumers can hear music. And so Billboard now bears the complex task of incorporating traffic from an ever-widening variety of platforms — YouTube, Vevo, Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Pandora, Vine, Twitter, etc. — into a standardized accounting that ranks all these songs together.
Category: AUDIENCE
St. Louis Symphony Reports Rise In Ticket Sales And Attendance
Total ticket sales for all performances reached $6.87 million, up 3.8 percent compared with last season. Even though there are three fewer concerts this year, attendance rose more than 1 percent to 190,817, officials said.
The Problem With Yahoo: The Snapchat Generation Barely Even Knows What It Is
Om Malik: “The $4.8-billion acquisition of Yahoo … by a telephone company, Verizon, is a watershed moment in the history of the Internet. It caps off an era – Web 1.0, for lack of a better term – that will soon be remembered much like telegraphs and rotary phones.”
The Real Problem With Playing Pokémon Go At The Holocaust Museum Isn’t (Just) A Lack Of Respect
“The museum, like the video game, relies on careful curation to furnish an alternate experience of reality. Playing Pokémon Go at a memorial isn’t just disrespectful – it interferes with the augmented reality you’re already in.”
Why Are Zombies Scary? It’s Not Because They Want To Eat Your Brains, Even Metaphorically
“Zombies belong to the realm of horror stories that reappear over and over throughout history – from ancient Mesopotamia to modern-day sci-fi – because they raise a more terrifying fear than merely that of a gory death: the threat of eternal life.”
The Big Plans For Cambodia’s Floating Arts Center
“The arts are an integral part of the fabric of [Phnom Penh], but, most days, art isn’t a major priority for those scraping by in one of the world’s poorest countries. That’s just one reason why The Boat is so important.”
After Decades Of Chaos, Somalia Is (Re-)Developing A Book Industry And Culture
“As the war-weary nation slowly gains more stability, there has been an uptick in the number of festivals promoting books and the culture of reading. The fairs have become an important place to expose Somalis to different writers and cultures across Somalia, Africa, and the world.”
Magazine For LGBTQ Arabs Publishes Its First Arabic Issue, And Things Get Dangerous
“Lawsuits and death threats have been volleyed at Jordan-based LGBTQ webzine My.Kali, which has just released its first Arabic-language issue in the May/June 2016 edition. My.Kali went live in 2007 and has traditionally published its ‘dialogue surrounding LGBTQ issues’ exclusively in English.”
Warning: This Mozart Opera Is So Extreme And Shocking That We’ll Let You Turn Your Tickets In For A Refund In Advance
“Graphic depictions of violence, racist abuse and sexual assault are all expected to feature in a hard-hitting new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte. But the [Edinburgh International Festival] failed to fully warn buyers when the tickets went on sale on April because it had not seen the three-and-a-half-hour opera, which will be performed at the Festival Theatre at the end of August.”
New York’s Big Apple Circus To Fold Its Tent After Fundraising Falls Short
“Despite its reputation and position in the city’s cultural firmament, many New Yorkers never realized that … the Big Apple is a nonprofit institution. Begun … in the 1970s, the circus was founded with a Robin Hood spirit that some families would pay full price; those lacking the means would pay nothing.”