The future of music – Music Games
♫ May 14th, 2012 4:32 am
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Music labels
to continue to seek new ways to make money in the face of declining CD sales. Digital track sales, such as Apple’s iTunes Music Store, were up 27 percent over 2007, surpassing the 1 billion for the first time in 2008. But, according to Nielsen SoundScan, is only 428 million albums (including disks, CD and online albums) were sold – down 14 percent from 2007. As recently as 2005, 619 million albums sold.
Meanwhile, there are more choices than ever to listen to music online, including MySpace Music, Imeem, Pandora and last.fm ‘s. It seems clear that the demand music streaming is the day for free whenever and wherever people want to hear, and the labels and artists will find ways to create experiences of music for their fans that they are ready to spend money in. What people have always been willing to pay for a unique experience where they can interact with the music of an artist in a way that may not be copied for free. For example, the fans want to see live music because they can not replicate this experience at home. Ringtones have been popular for over a decade. People are still willing to pay to join the fan club because of advantages such as closer relationships with artistit.Tags: One of the most promising areas for revenue growth of the music is combined with musical games . There were over 30 million downloads of songs in Rock Band, because the fans want to rock their favorite songs to play the game Guitar Hero has had over 40 million downloads and is now an excess of 2 G $ . What is remarkable is that the players have shown a willingness to pay for individual songs for the use of music in games, even though they often cost double the normal price of a digital download. In fact, Aerosmith says he makes more money by licensing its music to Guitar Hero from any previous albums the group recorded. Even recalcitrant digital, the Beatles, will release a version of Rock Band all their own. More music games coming soon, including Band Hero (for family games) and DJ Hero, which offers games and record turntable scratching in the battle for victory in a virtual nightclub.Other music games include Dance Dance Revolution, the Legend I, and Tap Tap Revolution, which is one of the best selling iPhone applications. SingStar is a karaoke video game series competitive requires players to sing with the music to score points. Loudcrowd provides a continuous stream of music set to a connected series of music-themed games.
Through play and interaction with others, users can earn or buy a variety of virtual goods, including clothing for their character and the music tracks that can be gathered to play and competition within the country. Best-selling artists Fall Out Boy has created a themed game FriendsorEnemies.com artists. Even Lo-Fi games like lottery tickets are jumping on the music bandwagon. Aerosmith tour in the summer, fans can win behind the scenes, the front row and maybe an extra few million dollars playing lottery games Aerosmith brand. With the growth of popular casual games on sites like Facebook, addictive games, Miniclip and with universal appeal of music is a natural choice for the two to meet. Music games give the label a new way to earn an income that users have shown a willingness to pay for it. It seems clear that others will follow.Keywords: Josh Grossman is director of product marketing for Loudcrowd – a destination for users to experiment and engage with music in the target = “_new” games music .
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