Reuters news agency reports that Nokia, the world’s largest phone manufacturer saw an increase in sales, particularly in emerging markets, but strong competition particularly for higher end phones such as Motorola’s Razr and Sony Ericsson’s Walkman Phone have made for some tough markets, particularly the usually strong Christmas Season. Analysts still generally rate Nokia acumulate, [...]
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1 in 5 Have Listened To Music On A Phone
A new survey says nearly 1 in 5 people in 16 countries around the world have listened to music on a mobile phone. More than a third of those surveyed want to use phones for music more in the future, and inferior sound quality and small amounts of memory are the biggest roadblocks. —–>Follow us [...]
KDDI Hits 20 Million Downloads
KDDI’s Chaku-Uta Full has now sold 20 million songs since it launched last November, continuing its stellar growth. It hit 10 million back in June. Here’s what that growth looks like on a graph: As you can see in the next graph, the number of downloads per day continues to increase as well. (What’s shown [...]
European Mobile Downloads Worth $640 million in 2010
Another analyst’s made another prediction about the mobile music market, saying that Europeans will spend just $640 million downloading full tracks to their mobiles, but that the market for real music ringtones will be $1.2 billion. I have a theoretical problem with these studies that lump ringtone and full-track downloads together, as although they’re both [...]
Phones Are Japan’s Dominant Download Platform
I posted over at Techdirt Wireless a story on how 98% of music downloads in Japan are to mobile phones, a pretty stunning figure, though this does include ringtones — and we know how the Japanese like ringtones. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
Asia’s Mobile Music Market
Ringtonia found an article in Variety about the Asian digital music market, which wasn’t that interesting, but had some nice stats about what’s going on in mobile music there: – South Korea’s online and mobile music sales are already higher than CD sales – 2 billion polyphonic ringtones were downloaded in Japan in 2004 — [...]
Let’s Not Get Ahead Of Ourselves
Clearly I’m a believer in mobile music and its potential. But unfettered hype isn’t what’s needed to realize that potential, hence my skepticism of so many claims coming out of the business. The latest is a claim from somebody from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry that mobile download revenues could overtake those from [...]
KDDI Sells 10 Million Downloads
KDDI says on June 15th, it sold the 10 millionth download from its Chaku Uta Full service. The service launched in November 2004, boasts a catalog of 30,000 songs, and it now selling 2 million tracks per month and growing. It passed the 5 million mark just in April, after taking two months after launch [...]
3 Says 30 Million Music Downloads — But…
3 says “more than 30 million full version music clips have been downloaded or streamed over their global networks to date since music services were launched in its nine markets.” Of course, by “full-version” music clips, they mean not just full-length audio, but also music videos, truetones and ringback tones. That’s lumping in apples and [...]
Mobile Props Up Japan’s Music Biz
Thanks to some computer problems, I missed this last week, but it’s a great story on the impact of mobile music in the mature market of Japan. PostPlay reports on a J@pan Inc newsletter piece with details of how mobile music sales there — mainly ringtones — are more than making up for declining royalty [...]
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