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what is Gangnam Style likelihood of a #1 next week on the UK Single Chart? this week: no chance, it's too late next week: ? (who are the competitions?)

it has a chance. It's #1 in Canada. #4 in the USA. All because of a viral MV. Amazing.

Is 2NE1 English up to scratch though? bA8yhGTzYyA Their cover of Like A Virgin (Madonna) on their Japanese album recently. Something is "off" for me.

someone posted this on ATRL yesterday I didn't realize it was doing very well in some countries (#1 even) Itunes Chart Gangnam Style #1 Denmark #1 Finland #2 Cyprus #2 Latvia #3 Netherlands #8 Sweden #9 Argentina #10 Norway #11 Belgium #11 New Zealand #18 Slovakia #21 Canada #21 Poland #22 Bulgaria #28 Australia #28 Estonia #36 Austria #39 Luxembourg #40 United States #44 Switzerland #48 Mexico #50 Slovenia #51 Spain #61 Greece #64 Chile #72 Czech Republic #72 Malta #77 Lithuania #81 United Kingdom #98 Brazil #102 Germany #109 Honduras #122 Ireland #138 Guatemala #143 France #144 Hungary #161 Panama #235 Italy THE POWER OF YOUTUBE.

should and would are two very different things. Has there ever been a jpop or kpop song to chart in the Top 100 of the UK Chart? p.s. Gangnam Style has a "female version" by HyunA 25,329,362 views in 2 weeks. Obviously, not as well as the original.

78 PSY - Gangnam Style (강남 스타일) 0.0235 0.0255 0.0228 0.0229 0.0234 0.0249 0.0195 0.0174 0.0000 LOL. The viral MV of 2012 (100 million views in less than 50 days) has arrived! (in the USA, it's doing much better at 37 PSY - Gangnam Style (강남 스타일) 0.1466 0.1295 0.1295)

Has PSY Gangnam Style charted in the UK Top 100 Itunes yet? It cracked the USA Top 50 on Itunes and been around that range for a few days now. All based on a viral Youtube MV. 9bZkp7q19f0

when was the last time a none English song charted in Itunes Top 50 (USA)? Gangnam Style is selling all based on its viral video on Youtube. AMAZING feat! The vid is amazing by the way. Anyone here who haven't seen it, it's a must see of 2012. 9bZkp7q19f0

why yes. due to my effort, Spotify has increase its paid subscriber by 3 people. lol on a more serious note, I just like Spotify because it is obviously the future of music consumption. The Itunes model is the thing of the past. Since switching, I haven't use Itunes more than a few hours in the past 12 months. Thanks to Spotify, I have listen to 100+ albums that I would never have otherwise listen to. My music consumption is now 1) Spotify 2) Youtube for MVs. I wasn't even tempted to buy a popular digital album when Amazon it on sale for $1.99 a few weeks ago. It's just a matter of time before Apple/Itunes come out with its own version of Spotify. Google, Amazon might beat Apple to it. Microsoft is relaunching Zune to become more similar to Spotify this fall/winter.

9bZkp7q19f0 Has this viral hit (20 mil + views in the last 10 days or so) chart on the top 500 of UK Itunes?

That poster was talking about the Free version. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19270362 Streaming music revenues up 40% globally in 2012 Streaming: 40% increase from last year Download: 8.5% increase from last year On-demand is projected to generate £696m or $1.1 billion USD in 2012.

4,000,000+ http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/di...007704352.story January, 2010:------------ 250,000 paid subscribers March 17, 2010:----------- 320,000 July 20, 2010: ---------------- 500,000 December 8, 2010: ------ 750,000 March 8, 2011:--------------- 1,000,000 July 14, 2011: -----------------1,600,000 Sept 21, 2011: ---------------- 2,000,000 Nov 23, 2011: ------------------2,500,000 Jan 26, 2012: -------------------3,000,000 July 31, 2012:--------------------4,000,000

Spotify rise in popularity correlates with the rise in popularity of smartphone. January, 2010:------------ 250,000 paid subscribers December 8, 2010: ------ 750,000 March 8, 2011:--------------- 1,000,000 Sept 21, 2011: ---------------- 2,000,000 Jan 26, 2012: -------------------3,000,000 July 31, 2012:--------------------4,000,000 paying subscribers In Sweden, Spotify generate around 9 times more revenue than Itunes.

probably the same but instead of $ it's £ It's $5 or $10 a month for USA. £5 or £10 a month for the UK. Around 1 million paying subscribers added in 6 months. Good news? Jan 26, 2012: -------------------3,000,000 July 31, 2012:--------------------4,000,000

a sign of things to come? For some artists, streaming royalties > download royalties and physical CD royalties http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbys...-streaming.html January, 2010:------------ 250,000 paid subscribers March 17, 2010:----------- 320,000 July 20, 2010: ---------------- 500,000 December 8, 2010: ------ 750,000 March 8, 2011:--------------- 1,000,000 July 14, 2011: -----------------1,600,000 Sept 21, 2011: ---------------- 2,000,000 Nov 23, 2011: ------------------2,500,000 Jan 26, 2012: -------------------3,000,000 July 31, 2012:--------------------4,000,000 http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/research/spotify_per_stream_tiers.jpg Mobile Stream refers to Spotify Radio (paying rate set by Congress at $0.0012 per song) 46 streams from a Premium User = 1 Itunes $0.99 download.

At this growth rate, 1D will be among the Top 10 VEVO of All-Time in the near future.

It might be more cost effective to build its own Spotify rather than buy Spotify. Spotify current valuation is $4 billion USD. Apple with its own Spotify-like service will get a lot of subscribers just because it is Apple. It will be good for the subscription market if Apple joins in.

For the free version? yes. Without it, there will be less reason to pay. If you pay, you can listen to as much music as you want with no ads.

Looking at its growth, it's no wonder that they are now No. 2 http://spotifyroyalties.blogspot.com/ Spotify Revenue: 2008: $0.612 million USD 2009: $18.1 million USD 2010: $99 million USD 2011: $236.4 million USD 2012: projected at $889 million USD

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessi...-Of-3660812.php Spotify: $895 mil revenue projection in 2012. It pays about 65% of revenue as music royalties. $895 mil x 65% = $582 mil Still far far behind Itunes which paid $3.2 billion in 2011.

http://spotifyroyalties.blogspot.com/ AMAZING growth

what do you know that the music executives don't? They would love for subscription like Spotify to take of.. because it generates the most money per subscribers. Using USA #: Spotify: $110 a year per subscriber Itunes: $40-50 a year per downloader The average American spend $22.5 a year on recorded music.

PC Magazine has this quote: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/dear-spoti...-but-8230/12615 The future is "subscription." With Apple/Itunes on board, it will gain prominent even more quickly.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...umor-at-sxs.DTL http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2012/120315latest2 It's just a matter of WHEN not IF. And when it does happen, it will be a HUGE turning point for subscription music. Billboard Hot 100 counting on-demand streaming is probably another turning point. Spotify is taking off (~$600 million a year in revenue). It grew from 1 million to 3 million in a space of ~10 months (March 2011 to Jan 2012). January, 2010:------------ 250,000 paid subscribers March 17, 2010:----------- 320,000 July 20, 2010: ---------------- 500,000 December 8, 2010: ------ 750,000 March 8, 2011:--------------- 1,000,000 July 14, 2011: -----------------1,600,000 Sept 21, 2011: ---------------- 2,000,000 Nov 23, 2011: ------------------2,500,000 Jan 26, 2012: -------------------3,000,000 It's no surprise that Itunes/Apple is working on a subscription service in order to compete.

In Sweden, Spotify is 84% of the digital music market. Legal downloads like Itunes is like 16%. in term of revenue