Alpha Data In The News

More than 1/4 of all music streamed in the USA last year was hip-hop

Overall on-demand stream volume will likely top a TRILLION this year

Watch out Billboard: Variety and Rolling Stone owner buys into Nielsen rival BuzzAngle for ‘aggressive’ music charts push

Penske Media Corporation (PMC) makes strategic investment in Jim Lidestri's company

‘You get the best out of an artist if you treat them like a partner, rather than someone who is subservient.’

Empire founder Ghazi Shami explains how his business is competing successfully with major labels

Why Billboard’s new chart changes will please some – but aggravate others

The USA's leading chart is about to slash the value of 'free' streams versus their paid counterparts

Post Malone tops Drake’s streaming record in the US

beerbongs & bentleys tallied over 288,000 streaming equivalent album sales (SEAs)

There were 4 times as many paid on-demand audio streams as ‘free’ ones in the US last year

Streams happening on subscription tiers rose 57.5% to hit 301.3bn, according to BuzzAngle report

Taylor Swift’s Reputation sells 1.29m in opening week in the US

Fourth consecutive million-plus debut for Swift

Taylor Swift’s Reputation smashes past 700k sales on day one in US

Expectation is that LP will sell around 1.2m in opening seven days