Digital Music Net

Twitter’s blog just announced the launch of the #nowplaying Twitter powered music discovery app.  Here’s a quick take on what it does:

 “It uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists. It also brings artists’ music-related Twitter activity front and center: go to their profiles to see which music artists they follow and listen to songs by those artists. And, of course, you can tweet songs right from the app.”

Here’s the full post – http://blog.twitter.com/2013/04/now-playing-twitter-music.html

So the pros and cons?

Pros:

• Nice, easy user interface (UI)
• fun to just click around to try music (more than many other services.
• One of the easiest ways to discover music based on what the Twitter crowd or your Twitter network is listening to.

Cons

• Mainly, it turns out I really don’t like the musical tastes of the Twitter crowd or my Twitter network.

Paul Resnikoff at DMN took the data from the RIAA’s revenue database and created a living pie chart that tracks the change in the formats in which people buy music.

Source: Digital Music News

Check out the full article and breakdown at

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2013/20130404forty#7h-KqWpVxWwSPy0dF-Mvnw

NPD put out a report that had some either smack-me-into-reality data or soon-to-be-outdated insights.  Basically, whether broadcast or online (e.g., Pandora), radio still rules.  Is the future like the past with a mix of radio and on-demand (just Spotify type vs throwing on a vinyl)?  Or is this simply a last hurrah for the radio model.  Personally, as a big believe in the laid back, serve me up experience, I think radio type programming, whether manual or automated like Pandora, will stay a part of our listening mix.  But maybe it’s age but these are the 13-35 year olds…