Soundpeep Presents Albums for Music Producers and Musicians

Dunwoody, GA (PRWEB) October 13, 2011

What most musicians need to get further in their career is promotion and studio time. Integrating this albums plugin is essential to boosting their success. This plugin allows the ability for music producers and musicians to upload, sell and share their music. They can also sync their music to Itunes and Amazon to sell their music or they can sell off of Paypal. When someone registers for the site as an artist they can choose to upload albums. There is no extra charge for excessive uploads of music. With the ability to share their music or get advertising through Soundpeep, musicians get a lot of promotion. On the activity page everyone can see recently posted albums which helps promote music through the site. It also offers the ability for music producers to sell music without the site taking any fees encourages them to sell through the site. When uploading an album subscribers can upload album art and even videos. The albums will also be able to contain a discography for the artist that do not have a record deal and that would like to keep a record of the music they came out with. People that sign up as listeners will be able to review published albums and rate artists. They will also be able to comment on the album, purchase and follow their favorite artist. There are other sites that offer these same uses but none offer them all on one website with the ability to access all the behind the scenes needs like a dancing studio, recording studio or vocal coach.

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The NPD Group: iTunes Store Still Mostly About Music

Port Washington, NY (PRWEB) September 28, 2011

According to a new report from The NPD Group, a leading market research company, one in four (51 million) U.S. Internet users now use iTunes, which is an increase of 3 percent since last year. Despite steady growth in app downloads on Apple devices, music remains the primary activity for the average iTunes user. More than half (54 percent) of all iTunes users uploaded music to an iPod or listened to music on iTunes in the past three months, while 28 percent downloaded a free app (an increase of 4 percent over the prior year) and 16 percent paid to download an app (also up 4 percent).

According to NPDs iTunes User Report 2011, the total number of U.S. consumers purchasing content from iTunes increased by one million people this year, and a larger percentage of those purchases came from app buyers. Last year 82 percent of iTunes content buyers purchased music, while just 31 percent purchased apps; however, in 2011 just 75 percent of iTunes content buyers purchased music, while 39 percent purchased apps. iTunes video buyers declined by 1 percentage point to 19 percent this year. On the device side, NPD noted that consumers who only used iPads were less likely than those using either iPods or iPhones to buy music and rent movies, primarily because of the attention being paid to apps and games.

Theres no reason the music or video industry should accept a loss of buyers, as device preferences change, said Russ Crupnick, senior vice president and entertainment analyst for The NPD Group They have significant opportunities to foster discovery, engagement, and purchases using the tablet platform.

The beauty of the iPad is that it brings together social media, access to artist websites, apps from IMDb, and Flixster, and Pandora and other streaming radio sites, all of which can be cross-leveraged to foster more awareness of movies and music, Crupnick continued. There is a continuing opportunity to build video and music revenue by creating a linear path from content discovery to content purchasing.

The information in this press release is based on The NPD Groups iTunes User Report 2011, which is based on 4,011 completed surveys from qualified respondents (age 13 and older) conducted in May 2011. Each respondent reported using iTunes at least once in the past three months. Statistical significance testing has been employed at the 95 percent confidence level.

About The NPD Group, Inc.

The NPD Group is the leading provider of reliable and comprehensive consumer and retail information for a wide range of industries. Today, more than 1,800 manufacturers, retailers, and service companies rely on NPD to help them drive critical business decisions at the global, national, and local market levels. NPD helps our clients to identify new business opportunities and guide product development, marketing, sales, merchandising, and other functions. Information is available for the following industry sectors: automotive, beauty, entertainment, fashion, food, home and office, sports, technology, toys, video games, and wireless. For more information, contact us, visit http://www.npd.com/, or follow us Twitter at https://twitter.com/npdgroup.

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