Indie Music Sales Get Boost As eMusic Starts Reporting To Soundscan
Emusic has announced that, effective today, its sales figures are being reported to Nielsen 
SoundScan. By reporting sales data eMusic will help reveal a more precise picture of digital music market sales to SoundScan which some believe has been severely undercounting the burgeoning independent music sector.
“The independent music sector is enjoying spectacular growth while overall recorded music sales from major labels continue to decline, and yet many in the music industry treat the independent music market as an afterthought. We’re certain that independent music market share has been inaccurately reported,” said David Pakman, CEO of eMusic.“
eMusic claims that it is now second only to iTunes in monthly download sales. Over the past 24 months, eMusic has sold more than 45 million tracks. This represents more music sold by other major music services like Rhapsody, Microsoft’s MSN, Yahoo!, and Napster combined. eMusic has no major label content; only tracks from 3800 independent record labels including Rykodisc, TVT, Concord, Naxos, Beggars Banquet, KOCH, Epitaph, Comedy Central, Smithsonian Folkways, Dischord, Merge, Razor and Tie and Sun.
Unlike other download portals who sell tracks using the WMA format or iTunes which has it’s own proprietary system, eMusic downloads are mp3’s compatible with almost all music players including the popular iPod.
eMusic data is good to know since we as indie artists have music available there.
What I did want to comment about though, is the current state of a culture in jeopardy in the state of Louisiana, including the Zydeco and Cajun Music that has become synonymous with the unique cultural/musical identity of this state. As Vice President of the Memphis Chapter of the Recording Academy, (aka the Grammy folks) we are working with the state to help the music community with financial assistance during these extraordinary times in our state history. To date MusiCares/The Grammy Foundation has assisted 2000 artists with over 2 million in financial assistance. Under the current economic climate we are experiencing the greatest harships our state has ever endured and our culture has been hit hard. We are petitioning NARAS (the Grammy foks) to establish a new voting category within the awards process for Zydeco and Cajun Music. There is also a grass roots effort lead by the growing legion of fans of these genre’s to have this music programmed on Sirius Satelite radio. If this interests you please visit the Sirius website and submit this as an idea. Many thanks.
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