Graphing Jazz

Is Jazz Dead?

Even though Miles Davis’ 1959 Columbia recording “Kind of Blue” is still the biggest selling jazz album of all time with more than 20 million sold to date— Sony’s Columbia label, the former home of Miles Davis’ recordings, no longer signs jazz .

“With the advent of the celebrity-as-musician trend in the 21st century, artistry is quickly going by the wayside. Many of today’s popular artists can’t sing or play an instrument. They are all image and attitude. Jazz, always touted as America’s one true art form, is struggling to survive. The major record labels shy away from niche markets, and promotion and marketing money goes with the youth demographic, which is generally under-educated about the art of music. This presents a cultural and ethical problem.”
- by Sal Polcino

Below are a few charts on and graphs on the great and sadly highly misunderstood art form.

Sales

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Jazz Has Become The Least-Popular Genre In The U.S.

Comparing Music 

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Music Genre Statistics

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The demographics of blues and jazz listeners…

Types of Jazz Listeners

Education Status of of Jazz Listeners

History (Timelines)

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History of Jazz and Blues

Longevity?

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The Future of Jazz in America

"Making a Killing" by Streaming

Making a Killing...

Even though worldwide streaming revenues increased by almost 40 percent in 2014 as the number of subscribers grew from 28 million in 2013 to 41 million, artists are paid virtually nothing via streaming music sites like Spotify and Pandora. But as many have put it "the genie is already out of the bottle"...

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Musings On Music Markets >

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The Rapid Rise of Digital Music >

Revenue? (not for the creators - just the distributors!)

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Money For the Songwriter ? >

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Final Thoughts >

Taylor Swift is right: Music can’t survive if you don’t pay for it. The average artist needs around 150 Spotify streams to equal the payout of a single $.99 download. Streaming services are killing digital download sales, with Pandora and Spotify leading the pack.

Music-Related Infographics

Music infographics

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How the Internet has Rocked the Music Industry

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Website that hosts a tremendous amount of data, charts
and infographics on the Music Industry

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The Evolution of Music

Evolution of Rock Concert Audience

Ain't it the truth?? !

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How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?

The Online Music Business - Earning Pennies...

Streaming music sites with freely accessible content are being used by a growing number of listeners as a substitute for buying music.

The new world of music looks very different from the old. With the new Web services, listeners don't put CDs into a stereo or download tunes to their iPod. Instead, their music sits on a server somewhere else, waiting to be played from a computer or any other Net-connected device. Source: Business Week 

"According to recent data, most major label artists 

see nothing from their Spotify streams."

Excerpted from Music And_Piracy Infographic by curseofthemoon

By my calculation it would take songwriting royalties for roughly 312,000 plays on Pandora to earn us the profit of one-- one-- LP sale. (On Spotify, one LP is equivalent to 47,680 plays.) Source: Damon Krukowski

Music at your fingertips on your cell phone or tablet may be cool but these companies are bleeding the creative artist dry... "Pandora's Box has already been opened" and it's hard to "put the genie back in the bottle" but folks should be aware just how much the music bizness has devolved.

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