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Digital Music Doctor has published an updated version of their Music Software Internet Popularity chart.
The chart ranks the top 10 music programs, using search engine requests as a gauge of interest.
The Top 10 Music Applications
Q2, 2009, based on search requests
- Pro Tools
- Cubase
- FL Studio
- Cakewalk Sonar
- Apple Logic
- Adobe Audition
- Ableton Live
- Apple Garageband
- Sound Forge
- Sony Acid
Obviously, there are a lot of other ways you could rank music applications – by sales dollar, by sales units or by registered users, for example. Garageband would probably top the list by those measures.
Leave a comment with your thoughts on this ranking!
This video captures Michael Masnick’s Learning From What’s Working: Success Stories From The Music Commerce Frontier.
Masnick is the founder of TechDirt – a technology blog that has been a vocal critic of the music industry’s approach to technology, especially DRM and its opposition to P2P file sharing.
You can safely skip the first 2 1/2 minutes – but the rest is must-view material for musicians.
Masnick relies way too much on the example of Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and other musicians that were established by the traditional music industry.
More interesting are Masnick’s examples of the creative and bizarre ways musicians are connecting with fan.
Give it a view and leave a comment with your thoughts!
Virgin has announced plans to close all Virgin Music Megastores in the US by this summer:
The remaining six Virgin Megastores in the United States will shut their doors this summer.
To buck declining music sales, the chain broadened its offerings in the last few years to apparel, books and electronics. The six remaining stores took in about $170 million in revenue a year, down from the $230 million from 23 stores at its peak in 2002.
The lack of expansion plans and a recent decision to close the Times Square location in New York, which had been on track to make $56 million last year until the financial collapse began in September, made supporting the rest of the chain untenable, Wright said.
“Our six best stores from a retail point of view are also our six best stores from a real estate point of view,” Wright said.
It looks like the corporate record store may soon be a thing of the past.
Do you think Wal-Mart killed the big chain record stores, was it iTunes, or did they just kill themselves?
Need a reminder that the Internet has changed the economics of music?
Nine Inch Nails‘ Creative Commons licensed Ghosts I-IV, which was released as a free download, is ranked the best selling MP3 album of 2008 on Amazon’s MP3 store.
Despite the fact that you could download Ghosts legally from file-sharing networks, and despite the fact that you could copy the album and share it with your friends, people, in droves, purchased the release at Amazon.
I’ll be very surprised if more artists don’t try to reproduce NIN’s success in 2009.
What do you think this means for artists that don’t have the high profile of Trent Reznor and NIN?
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