According to Big Hit metrics, the show reached a peak of 756,000 concurrent viewers in 107 countries and territories. Attendance was the equivalent of 15 shows at a 50,000 seat stadium and was the biggest audience for a paid virtual concert. Big Hit added that the concert also helped grow BTS’ fan club, known as the ARMY, by 10,000 members.
Source: BTS’ ‘Bang Bang Con: The Live’ Claims Record Viewership for Online Concert
Competition in the streaming space has grown in the last few years with more companies offering their own platforms to the public. This saturation has lead many services to begin providing viewership numbers in an attempt to show that their content is gaining traction with consumers.
Although we are now nearing the post-lockdown era in many countries across the globe, we are only just at the start of the recession phase that is coming next. Over the coming months we will start to see concrete examples of the downturn (including Q2 financial results) that will transform the recession from an abstract possibility into something far more tangible.
Charts aren’t democratic; these days they are influenced by heavy listeners to on-demand streaming services. Not surprisingly, heavy listeners who spend 10 or more hours streaming each week are more likely to cite Rap/HipHop as their favorite genre. Light streamers prefer ’80s-’90s Hits and Classic Rock.
Source: The music industry is still obsessed with charts – but is it always looking at the right data?
Spotify announced in a blog post Friday (May 15) that it will be combining its separate data and analytics dashboards, one of which was for artists and managers, the other of which was for labels and distributors, into one place: a revamped Spotify For Artists. The change is expected to roll out in the coming weeks and months, and Spotify said new products will arrive combined in one place going forward.
Source: Spotify Combines Artist, Label Analytics In One Place
While there were gains across the board, they weren’t distributed evenly. Twitch — the biggest live-streaming platform — saw the most growth in terms of sheer hours, with its hours watched jumping 50 percent between March and April and a full 101 percent year over year. It’s now up to 1.645 billion hours watched per month.
Source: The lockdown live-streaming numbers are out, and they’re huge
A new survey suggests consumers are divided as to the ongoing feud between theater owners and Hollywood studios — specifically Universal Pictures — over releasing new movies simultaneously on the big screen and in the home. Slightly more than half of consumers, or 53 percent, agree that “digital premieres” are a good thing during the COVID-19 crisis, but that they want things to go back to normal when the pandemic ends.
Source: Moviegoers Split Over Theater Owners Feud With Universal
So much for the Golden Age of media content. The latest installment of a weekly COVID-19 tracking study from Mindshare finds that nearly half (46%) of American consumers say they’ve already run out of media content to watch, read or listen to. That’s up from 33% a couple of weeks ago, and 30% at the end of March.
Source: Classic Rock Gives Comfort to Music Fans During Coronavirus Lockdown
Lockdown and stay-at-home orders due to the novel coronavirus have been a big boost for online pirates, with a new study showing double-digit growth in digital piracy across major territories in Europe and North America. The data, published Monday by London-based piracy analysts Muso, shows visits to illegal film streaming and download sites shot up by 41.4 percent in the United States and by 42.5 percent in the U.K. in the last seven days of March.
Source: Online Piracy Spikes Amid Coronavirus Lockdown: Study