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Why Adele is Bond and BTS is Squid Game

Mark Mulligan

25 Oct 2021

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BTS

niche

When Spotify announced that Adele had broken the record for the most streams in one day, with 19.8 million streams , the caveat was that this was true as long as you do not include all of the streams BTS...

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Adele’s success will be best measured in cultural impact – not sales

Mark Mulligan

15 Oct 2021

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Streaming

Adele is something of an anomaly in the modern music business, a throwback to how things used to be. These days even the biggest artists struggle to get mainstream attention for their new releases in a...

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The Future of Music: A Vision of Post-Format

Mark Mulligan

18 Sep 2019

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Artists

Edison

Formats have shaped and dictated the evolution of recorded music. The constraints that formats set have, in turn, become the creative frameworks within which music has operated. Now, in the internet era,...

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YouTube And Latin America Are Taking Over The World

Mark Mulligan

20 Jul 2017

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2 billion streams

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Unless you have been on Mars for the last couple of days you will have seen the news that Luis Fonsi’s ‘Despacito’ has become the most streamed track in history with 4.6 billion streams. The figure...

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The Digital Music Week In Review 20 5 16

Mark Mulligan

20 May 2016

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BPI

digital music

This is first in a semi-regular round up of what’s caught our eye in digital music over the last week: Facebook’s Slideshow could kill off Flipagram but I wouldn’t be so so worried if I was Musical.ly,...

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MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: Download Buyers

Mark Mulligan

16 Dec 2015

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Apple

Data Point Of The Day

The standout sales success of Adele over recent week has many permutations, not least of which is the keen reminder that many millions of people still buy downloads and CDs. The streaming transition continues...

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Quick Take: Taylor Swift, Apple Music And The Search For Exclusives

Mark Mulligan

14 Dec 2015

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Apple Music

BBC

Taylor Swift just announced that Apple Music will be the exclusive streaming partner of her latest live film ‘The 1989 World Tour Live’ which includes alongside footage of the performances, back stage...

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Will Adele Be The Last Hurrah Of The Album Era?

Mark Mulligan

23 Oct 2015

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adele '25'

album sales

The much anticipated Adele album ‘25’ will go on sale on November 20th and its lead single ‘Hello’ hit the airwaves and Vevo today , with Adele doing an impressive number of near-simultaneous radio...

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