A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post (see here) about how concert tickets have been getting more expensive. I touched on two main explanations for this, one is inflation, the other is the change in revenue artists make from selling their music. Artists used to sell millions of records and would see a... Continue Reading →
I use Spotify quite a lot during normal times, but now that COVID19 has me housebound I've noticed I'm using it even more. I took to the Irish Spotify charts to see was this a national event or just me. The below chart shows the total number of streams for each song in the top... Continue Reading →
Music is an odd type of good, in the sense that it doesn't really have a physical form. Songs exist as a sonic entity and the only material we attach them to is the object which is used to deliver the music itself, so vinyl records, tapes, and CDs; but even today with the surging... Continue Reading →
Musicians make money in two ways from touring. The first being the sales from concert tickets and merchandise, the second is the increase in consumption of the musicians’ music and in particular their back catalog. When people go to see an act in concert they generally do a bit of preparation to get them into... Continue Reading →
