July 2012
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North of Where We Are Today: Live Nation Labs in...
By Eric Garland
[Update: Rexly duderino Joel Resnicow has written a better and more informative announcement. Please read his first.]
Tonight I’m feeling reflective, on the eve of the announcement that we have acquired iPhone social music star Rexly and that the Rexly team will establish our new San Francisco presence, Live Nation Labs North, or LN² as it’s already known around here....
April 2012
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Building into a 'Smash?'
Variety -
[Columbia], the Sony-owned label, which has managed to sell more than 11 million albums from Fox’s weekly musical “Glee,” may have sought similar success. But, by early April, “Smash” had only managed to sell 235,000 digital tracks, according to Nielsen Soundscan.
By comparison, says senior media analyst John Robinson of media measurement company...
February 2012
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I Just Want To Tell You Five Things...
From: Joe Fleischer <joe@bigchampagne.com> Date: Tues, 31 Jan 2012 18:23:06 -0800 To: Team Champagne Subject: FW: I just want to tell you five things
#humblebrag
TL/DR
From: Eric Garland <eric@bigchampagne.com> Date: Tues, 31 Jan 2012 18:21:18 -0800 To: Joe Fleischer Subject: I just want to tell you five things
1. You should try to be born an anesthesiologist.
2. It’s...
January 2012
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Kyle Bylin Exits Billboard, Joins BigChampagne +...
Hypebot -
Just weeks after Live Nation acquired influential media measurement firm BigChampagne, the live concert promoter has announced another major talent grab: Kyle Bylin. …
“The feedback loop in popular culture is broken,” Bylin told Hypebot in an email interview. “A fan holds little connection to their actions and the chart movements of their favorite artists. With...
December 2011
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Pop The Cork: Former WMG Tech Chief Joins...
Fast Company -
On the heels of Live Nation’s acquisition of BigChampagne, the consumer data analytics firm, the ticket seller is set to make yet another high-profile pickup: Ethan Kaplan, Warner Music Group’s former SVP of emerging technology, will soon join the company. Together with BigChampagne founder Eric Garland, the two will help redefine Live Nation and...
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“….Billboard is no longer the sole, dominant force when it comes to...”
– -David Malitz, Washington Post.
Here’s Chris Richards’ piece that David refers to…
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BigChampagne CEO on Live Nation Deal: 'We’re Going...
Hollywood Reporter:
Eric Garland, founder of the media measurement company, tells THR, “I haven’t even begun to wrap my head around how big these properties are together.”
News that entertainment conglomerate Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, operates more than 100 venues across the U.S. and is partnered with some of music’s biggest artists, is buying fledgling data analytics...
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“BigChampagne has a reputation for offering blunt assessments of consumers’...”
– -Ethan Smith, Wall Street Journal:
Live Nation Acquires BigChampagne
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LIVE NATION TO ACQUIRE BIGCHAMPAGNE MEDIA...
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Leading technology developer integrates live event data, expands capabilities
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14, 2011
Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) announced today it has acquired BigChampagne Media Measurement. BigChampagne is a leading developer of technologies for collecting, analyzing and distributing media metrics. BigChampagne’s...
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October 2011
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“It was the strength of Steve’s passion, persuasive gifts, persistence and...”
– - MTV: Steve Jobs Made Computing An ‘Emotional Experience’
MTV’s Gil Kaufman talks with BoingBoing’s David Pescovitz and our own Eric Garland about iconoclast Job’s impact on them personally - both nuanced and brazen.
It’s easy to forget now thanks to the...
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New York Times: He Pushed a Reluctant Industry...
“Steve Jobs came into the music industry at a time when the incumbents had given up on their own fans,” said Eric Garland, chief executive of the media tracking firm BigChampagne. “Virtually all the leaders in the industry retrenched and began to focus on a scheme of locks and braces on music. Steve Jobs recognized that people on the Internet were not thieves. They were fans – rabid...
September 2011
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“It would have been very easy for Merge to get big, fat and stupid. They never...”
– Salon - Can an indie label with great taste save the music industry?
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“Overwhelmingly, the differentiation is in how these services are...”
– La Times - Digital music service Slacker uses DJs to pick songs
August 2011
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“[Netflix CEO] Reed Hasting is deliberately creating dissatisfaction. He’s...”
– Greg Sandoval, Cnet -
Is Netflix Killing DVDs Like Apple Killed Floppies?
Big Champagne CEO Eric Garland has seen Netflix’s price hike in many different forms over many years. For over a decade, Garland’s Los Angeles-based company has tracked digital-media consumption over the Web and...
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“It’s Like Flipping A Switch”
Gigaom -
Fox could lose up to a third of web viewers to piracy
“I’ll just go back to pirating my content”: That was the response some of our readers had after hearing about Fox’s plans to restrict online access to full episodes of its shows to viewers that can either authenticate themselves as Dish Network subscribers or pay for Hulu Plus. The question is: How many users will authenticate,...
July 2011
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Ganging Up on Internet Pirates
Wall Street Journal -
Hollywood, Telecom Providers Unite to Target Those Who Share Copyrighted Films, Music
Internet users who share pirated movies and music online may soon be getting an unpleasant surprise: Warnings from their cable and phone providers that detail alleged copyright infringement and threaten to slow their Web connections if they don’t stop.
The new so-called...
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“The challenge is that consumers will continue to do whatever they wish on the...”
– New York Times - To Slow Piracy, Internet Providers Ready Penalties
After years of negotiations with Hollywood and the music industry, the nation’s top Internet providers have agreed to a systematic approach to identifying customers suspected of digital copyright infringement and then alerting...
June 2011
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“…This younger generation may not be less passionate or knowledgeable about...”
– -Huffington Post
Reflecting on iCloud and Eventful CEO Jeff Pollack’s demographic research, Eric Garland suggests that with so many streaming options available, 13-18 year olds may not prioritize curating and owning personal music libraries the way that 19-30 year olds do.
Read the whole...
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This week's music trends: Adele rolls in at #1,...
(CBS/What’s Trending) - It doesn’t look like Adele is abdicating her throne as the music industries saving grace anytime soon.
Pitbull’s monster summer jam “Give Me Everything” stays at number two this week while Idol champ Scotty McCreery drops off the chart completely. Lil Wayne is making up for the lost time he spent in jail as his hit “How to Love”...
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Music Industry Responds to iCloud Announcement...
Rolling Stone -
“…How powerful iCloud could be won’t become evident until the fall, when Apple is likely to unveil the crucial song-streaming part of the service.
This will probably be part of the $25-a-year iTunes Match, which Jobs said will scan users’ hard drives for music ripped from CDs, pirated online or purchased from non-Apple stores,...
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“If you’re a music fan, the greater the fan, the greater the frustration”
– AP -
Apple’s new cloud music plan will charge users $25 a year to access non-iTunes songs
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs on Monday introduced more than just a cloud storage system for songs that fans buy legitimately through iTunes. He unveiled a system that might...
April 2011
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Lester Bangs' Basement - What it means to have all... →
from SLATE. “You can’t Google it, but it exists.”
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“All of these changes that are so exciting for consumers, people who love media,...”
– Business Insider: Why Old Media Won’t Go Down Without A Fight
March 2011
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“Amazon Cloud: “They’re answering what I’m sure are their...”
– Bloomberg - Amazon Introduces Online Music-Streaming Service Ahead of Google, Apple
February 2011
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“Local newscaster gaffes often go viral because of simple schadenfreude, but in...”
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LA Times: “KCBS reporter Serene Branson ‘scared, nervous, confused’ by her Grammy night emergency”
“She just keeps going and going as if expecting that actual words will eventually show themselves if she keeps putting in the effort,” Garland said. “And...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FAST COMPANY NAMES...
Fast Company Announces 2011 ranking of World’s Most Innovative Companies
NAMES BIGCHAMPAGNE AMONG THE TOP THREE MUSIC COMPANIES, ALONGSIDE PANDORA AND COCA-COLA
Apple, Facebook, Twitter and Zynga among the top companies honored in the March 2011 issue
New York, February 16, 2011 – Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companieslist recognizes BigChampagne for groundbreaking work around...
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“The Grammys: “The biggest stars in the sky — Gaga, Bieber, Rihanna —...”
– LA Times: Grammy Awards: Grammy show a sales winner for performers
January 2011
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On the pop charts: Online music growth slows, but...
LA Times:
The slowing digital numbers are a sign that the market for digital music is maturing, said Eric Garland, chief executive of Big Champagne, a digital music consulting firm. Garland believes the numbers point to another change in the market — the emergence of free and legal alternative sources to music online, such as YouTube, Vevo and Pandora.
“What’s changed is that people...
December 2010
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Ultimate Chart: Looking Behind the Curtain
Indie Ambassador -
We’ve written about the “Ultimate Chart” that Internet research company BigChampagne is currently developing in the past (which pulls data from numerous online sources like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, YouTube, etc. and aggregates them together with physical sales to form a more accurate picture of a given artist’s success), but this month’s issue of the Berklee Music...
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WatchDigital Music News: Why Big Media Is Less Likely Than Ever to License Your Startup…
”The first challenge you face as an entrepreneur is that you’re probably dependent upon cooperation from these large media companies, and you’re probably not going to get it.”
November 2010
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“Last month, the peer-to-peer filesharing program LimeWire was ordered shut...”
– - New Haven Advocate: Is Music Getting Harder to Steal?
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“The songs from Glee aren’t hits. They’re souvenirs.”
– NPR Music - Hits That Aren’t: ‘Glee’ Songs Zoom Up And Down The Charts
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Hollywood, Hulu, and Hurt Locker: A Movie Industry...
CNET - Few see Web, Hollywood like Eric Garland (Q&A)
Eric Garland digs deep into the state of movie distribution at this juncture in the digital age and finds progress - even given the very real issues of corporate culture, and the undervaluing of ubiquitous content.
Read it here.
October 2010
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How Lady Gaga's One Billion YouTube Views Changes...
“When you look at Lady Gaga hitting a billion views, I think that’s a very positive wake-up call for the industry—that we need to think about the metrics of success differently,” says Joe Fleischer, CMO of media measurement firm Big Champagne. The Beverly Hills-based company recently developed Billboard rankings for the digital age. Called the Ultimate Chart, Big...
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BigChampagne's Building a Social Music Chart
Fortune Magazine:
Entrepreneur Eric Garland thinks he has a better music chart. His secret? Tweets, status updates, and web chatter.
Read the full article…
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“As long as there are people out there with musical aspirations, [TuneCore] is...”
– L.A. Times: Digital music distributor gives artists a break
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2010 American Music Awards®' Nominees Announced
Eminem and Lady Antebellum Lead 2010 Nominees; Bon Jovi, P!nk and Usher Confirmed to Perform
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ — Recording artists Demi Lovato and Taio Cruz revealed the 2010 American Music Awards® (AMAs) nominees this morning from the JW Marriott Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE (see full list of nominees below). Bon Jovi, P!nk and Usher were also announced as performers for the...
September 2010
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Retailers Fear Lil Wayne Album Will Hurt Physical...
HipHopDX, on “I Am Not A Human Being”:
“As sales have declined, Lil Wayne’s albums have been one of the few bright spots for physical retailers during the past few years. Tha Carter III was the top-selling album of 2008, registering over 2.8 million copies sold in a span of six months. Despite being panned by critics and being leaked weeks before its physical...
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L.A. Times: Hollywood sounds alarm as streaming... →
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L.A. Times: "The top of the charts is no longer a...
Meanwhile, the most popular artist in the U.S., if one is to go by BigChampagne’s “Ultimate Chart,”which combines sales, airplay and social-networking data, is Katy Perry. Her “Teenage Dream” is selling well but far from gangbusters. In three weeks, the album has sold 339,000 copies. The artist isn’t going anyway anytime soon: Singles from the album, for...
August 2010
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The Times: Diving Deeper into What The Continuing...
New York Times -
“BigChampagne, a media measurement firm in California, believes there is an opening for a new chart that better captures an artist’s popularity and commercial success. Last month, the company introduced a service, which it is calling the Ultimate Chart, that ranks artists based on the number of albums sold, singles sold, songs streamed online and other factors. The...
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“It’s like MTV’s heyday, all over again”
– - Eric Garland,
VARIETY: Lady Gaga: Download diva: Pop sensation transforms musicvideo culture
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New Music Seminar Announces New Partnership With...
New Music Seminar announces a new partnership with BigChampagne and their Ultimate Chart technology in support of New Music Seminar’s Artist on the Verge Project (AOV Project) to help identify the top artists on the verge of breaking. The NMS Artist on the Verge Project occurs twice at year during New Music Seminar NYC in July and New Music Seminar LA in February. The NMS and...
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HuffPo: Game Changer: Now You Know Which Songs...
“When you can listen to anything, who do you listen do? When fans have it all, who do they want more of? For the first time, thanks to the resources tapped by The Ultimate Chart, we can answer these questions.
The public for years has been blissfully ignorant of what the charts consider hits, responding to songs that move them and instill passion. Sounds like now they may also be able...
