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L.A. Times Covers Music Biz Forecasts at Digital Music Forum

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 8, 2009 - 11:39am.
Los Angeles - The Los Angeles Times reported from our Digital Music Forum West event in Hollywood on Tuesday, focusing on music industry data presented by NPD Group, BigChampagne and Topspin. "Analysts speaking at Digital Music Forum West in Hollywood this afternoon suggested that there's more pain ahead for the industry -- much more. On the other hand, they said it's not necessarily a bad time for artists, and things couldn't be better for fans," the Times' Jon Healey reported.

tags: Music | Reports | Research | BigChampagne | Digital Music Forum | Topspin | NPD Gropu |

Remastered Beatles Albums Hit File-Sharing Networks

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 8, 2009 - 9:09am.
Los Angeles - Every single track from the newly remastered Beatles albums, which are due out in stores on Wednesday, was leaked onto file-sharing networks over the weekend, according to data from BigChampagne, which monitors peer-to-peer networks.
tags: P2P | Piracy | Music | Beatles | Copyright | BigChampagne | Demonoid |

Universal Music Taps BigChampagne for Online Metrics

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 18, 2009 - 11:41am.
New York - Universal Music Group on Tuesday announced a long-term partnership with BigChampagne, a provider of information and analytic tools about online media consumption. Under the deal, UMG will receive analysis of songs and listening patterns from millions of users of social networks and online music services, including file-sharing networks. Other BigChampagne clients including Viacom/MTV and Clear Channel's Premiere Radio Networks.

tags: Marketing | Music | Metrics | Universal Music | BigChampagne |

BigChampagne Releases Music Biz News Aggregators

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 5, 2009 - 11:08am.
Beverly Hills, Calif. - BigChampagne, a provider of analytical data on digital media consumption, on Wednesday announced the launch of a new, free platform that will offer information about the sale, broadcast and consumption of popular entertainment media. The BC Dash platform will offer, among other features, two free curated music news services -- TweetStream and Breaking News. Breaking News will syndicate music industry news stories in real-time, while TweetStream will aggregate and filter the best stories from Breaking News via Twitter. The company said similar services for the film and TV industries are currently in development.

tags: Music | Reports | News | Publishing | Research | BigChampagne | Twitter |

Report: Top Songs at Retail Also Most Popular on P2P

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 14, 2009 - 12:32pm.
London - In a study that purports to disprove Wired editor Chris Anderson's "Long Tail" theory of retail, U.K. industry body PRS for Music and file-sharing tracker BigChampagne found that the most-popular songs at retail were also the most popular tracks being downloaded from file-sharing networks.
tags: P2P | Music | Reports | Copyright | Research | BigChampagne | PRS for Music |

Report: Leaked U2 Album Downloaded Over 445K Times

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 10, 2009 - 12:50pm.
London - U2's new album "No Line On the Horizon" was downloaded more than 445,000 times during the period between when it was leaked onto file-sharing networks on Feb. 18 and its official release date on March 2, Music Ally reported, citing data from peer-to-peer monitoring firm BigChampagne.
tags: P2P | Music | Reports | BitTorrent | Retail | U2 | BigChampagne |

EFF Publishes RIAA File-Sharing Lawsuit White Paper

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 30, 2007 - 10:08am.

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital civil liberties group, on Thursday released a 20-page white paper that chronicles the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) four-year legal campaign against illegal file-sharing.

tags: Law | Lawsuits | P2P | Piracy | Music | RIAA | Copyright | EFF | BigChampagne |

Clear Channel Radio to Provide Audience Data to BigChampagne

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 12, 2007 - 3:48pm.

San Antonio, Texas - Radio giant Clear Channel will provide audience data from its Online Music & Radio unit to BigChampagne, which tracks broadcast and streaming radio and downloads on peer-to-peer network, Billboard reported. Clear Channel will provide BigChampagne with streaming, download and broadcast Internet programming data. Beverly Hills, Calif.-based BigChampagne also provides online music charts for Billboard's Radio Monitor.

tags: Radio | Music | Metrics | Clear Channel | BigChampagne |

Nielsen to Integrate "Top Swaps" P2P Download Data from BigChampagne

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 4, 2005 - 10:18am.
Beverly Hills, Calif. -- Media ratings provider Nielsen Entertainment on Wednesday announced a partnership with Big Champagne, to integrate the company's peer-to-peer file-sharing network monitoring data into Nielsen radio airplay ratings. The addition will place data on "top swaps" alongside Nielsen's radio airplay data on the company's BDSRadio.com -- to provide record labels, artists and radio stations with a new source of information on music trends. "The linkage of Nielsen Entertainment's Actionable Entertainment Intelligence in music with Big Champagne's P2P charts is the beginning of a broader new landscape we plan to map, detailing the interrelationship between technology and consumption," said Nielsen Entertainment president and CEO Andrew Wing. Beverly Hills, Calif.-based BigChampagne's data is culled from monitoring P2P networks like Kazaa, and is also syndicated by Entertainment Weekly and E! Entertainment Television.
tags: P2P | Nielsen | Download | Top Swaps | BigChampagne |