http://paidcontent.org/2012/01/10/419-coldplay-will-warm-to-streaming-after-unit-sales-ebb/ The economics of digital content Sat, 18 May 2013 03:38:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2012/01/10/419-coldplay-will-warm-to-streaming-after-unit-sales-ebb/#comment-86963 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:35:32 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2012/01/10/419-coldplay-will-warm-to-streaming-after-unit-sales-ebb/#comment-86963 Not sure if this is a good strategy. In this internet age, music artists and companies don’t have the extensive choice that they had 10 years ago. They need to get revenue from all channels, whether free streaming, download sites of mobile app stores. They can’t dictate who can access their music anymore, because user-generated content is competing with them and the traditional music distribution and selling channels they have clung to are disappearing (HMV, Zavvi, Woolworths etc) so they have to consider new revenue streams, free or not.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/01/10/419-coldplay-will-warm-to-streaming-after-unit-sales-ebb/#comment-86962 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:39:50 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2012/01/10/419-coldplay-will-warm-to-streaming-after-unit-sales-ebb/#comment-86962 I can’t blame them. They get more money from album and single sales as opposed to internet radio royalties, and they actually have reason to believe that their new album will sell very well (their last one sold 2.8 million copies in the US alone).

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