Adele appears to have activated millions of customers for whom making a purchase is viewed as a sign of devotion and support for the artist they love.
Category: music
Why Are People Paying For Adele’s New Album?
“Album sales are profitable, but they are not the future of the music business—streaming is. Could it be possible that the record business, pursuing a strategy of inflating sales by keeping an album off Spotify, Apple Music, or Deezer, is choosing short-term profits over long-term growth?”
Hating On Holiday Music? Why? (A Defense)
“Unlike December’s retail madness, the music is divorced from commercial machinations and chaos; it’s about slowing down and homing in on what matters. In this way, seasonal tunes have an almost childlike outlook.”
Danish Composer Wins This Year’s $100,000 Grawemeyer Prize
The song cycle “let me tell you” by Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen has earned the 2016 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, according to the University of Louisville, which distributes the prize each year. The prize includes $100,000.
Adele’s New Album Sets New Record For First Week Sales
On Tuesday, Nielsen Music said that in just four days the British singer broke the record previously set by ‘N Sync in 2000. The boy band’s “No Strings Attached” sold 2.416 million albums in its first week.
Tod Machover’s Sprawling Symphony Of Detroit Spills Off The Stage
“The result was less a purely musical work than a sprawling, ceremonial communion. As an exercise in sincere civic engagement and community building, the project was unimpeachable.”
Toronto Symphony Reports 57 Percent Increase In Fundraising
“The symphony ended the 2014-15 season with a small surplus of $135,781, its second in a row, on total operating expenses of $27,952,748. This positive report follows earlier surpluses reported for the National Ballet of Canada, the Canadian Opera Company and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.”
Opera Colorado Comes Back From Austerity With A New Plan For Audiences
“Anything we’re doing outside the opera house is to engage a different audience. It’s not about bringing this audience we have out into the community.”
Sound Without Barriers: Recording Contemporary Music
“No longer do composers require the endorsement of a large corporation to get their music recorded and released as they did 50 years ago; as a result, the diversity and quality of the recordings that listeners have at their fingertips has never been greater.”
Philadelphia Orchestra, Still Struggling, Drops Plans For Artistic Collaborations And More
“The slip in attendance is worrisome. Philanthropy tends to spring most naturally from active listeners, and the downtick produced a drop in revenue. ‘We had a shortfall of $3 million in our ticket sales and in our recurring contributions,’ orchestra spokeswoman Katherine Blodgett said.”