As I do at the end of each year, we take the Top 100 selling songs of the previous year and look for patterns on what’s making a song a hit. Some of our findings for this year: The average length of a song intro continues to be 7.1 seconds long 71% of the intros [...]
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IT’S NOT SPOTIFY’S FAULT, PT. 2
The debate on Spotify has continued in recent weeks as mainstream press has been covering the fact that big artists like Adele and Coldplay are holding back their releases since they believe it cuts into sales. For their part, a Spotify spokeswoman says there’s “not a shred of evidence that holding back downloads cannibalizes downloads”. [...]
by JayFrank on January 17, 2012 in Industry Trends
