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Media
Lots of people tuning into streaming music services
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 11 December 2009
The number of people using streaming music services like Spotify is up and growing rapidly. We all knew that anyway, but it counts as news today because radio ratings body RAJAR have released some stats to prove it, which, if they’re anything like RAJAR’s usual listening figures for traditional radio, are essentially made up and worth nothing.
Still, as previously reported, it’s the radio sector who probably have the most to fear about the rise of services like Spotify and We7, more so than the a la carte download stores, so it’s good their ratings body is researching these trends.
Whether radio companies will figure out how to respond to the fact 4.5 million people in the UK had tuned into a streaming music service by last month, up from 2.9 million a year earlier, I don’t know. Probably not.
