This chapter explores the recording industries statistic that only one in ten of its projects will succeed. It begins by outlining the origins of the one-in-ten statistic, before tracing its prevalence within the recording industry and its analyses within academia. It next examines the uses of the ratio when coupled with the employment of ‘new’ music. Finally, this chapter looks at the promotional literature of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which is deploying these tropes to defend the purpose of record companies in the digital age
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This chapter explores the recording industries statistic that only one in ten of its projects will s...
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This edited collection provides the first in-depth examination of the use and abuse of statistics in...
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Richard Osborne and Dave Laing (dir.), Music by Numbers. The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Musi...
This chapter looks at sales awards in the music industries. It addresses some of the standards and v...
In this article I explore the record industry’s primary sales trophy: the gold disc, as well as its ...
In doing this research I gained a detailed insight into the music industry and how it operates. The ...
The odds of success in creative industries like the book, music or movie industry are often said to ...
This is the introduction to the collection Music by Numbers, edited by Richard Osborne and Dave Lain...
Since the development of the first file sharing program, Napster, in 1999, the practice of illegal f...
This research analyzes the performance of 467 record labels in eight European countries over a perio...
The music industry has been in a state of flux for the past 20 years. Disrupted by the digital revol...
The paper argues that the paradigmatic shift from the sale of printed music to exploiting and managi...
The music industry underwent a revolution with the advance of digitisation, which was a disaster for...
This chapter explores the recording industries statistic that only one in ten of its projects will s...
This chapter explores claims that the live music industry generates more revenue than the recorded m...
This edited collection provides the first in-depth examination of the use and abuse of statistics in...
This chapter provides a history of the statistical compilation of the UK singles chart, detailing wh...
Richard Osborne and Dave Laing (dir.), Music by Numbers. The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Musi...
This chapter looks at sales awards in the music industries. It addresses some of the standards and v...
In this article I explore the record industry’s primary sales trophy: the gold disc, as well as its ...
In doing this research I gained a detailed insight into the music industry and how it operates. The ...
The odds of success in creative industries like the book, music or movie industry are often said to ...
This is the introduction to the collection Music by Numbers, edited by Richard Osborne and Dave Lain...
Since the development of the first file sharing program, Napster, in 1999, the practice of illegal f...
This research analyzes the performance of 467 record labels in eight European countries over a perio...
The music industry has been in a state of flux for the past 20 years. Disrupted by the digital revol...
The paper argues that the paradigmatic shift from the sale of printed music to exploiting and managi...
The music industry underwent a revolution with the advance of digitisation, which was a disaster for...