Mission Statement
This group investigates solutions for better sales analytics and evaluates new technologies to gain better insights from music retail data.
Updates
• 12/2011 — Currently working on Metrics Town Hall programing at Music Biz 2012 as well as the following issues: Standardizing Metrics Definitions and Collection/Reporting Practices; Metrics Prioritization; and Metrics Education & Strategy. See PDF for details.
• 11/10/2011 — Music Discovery Study Unveiled
• 10/13/2010 — Introduction of Sales Authentication Agency (Los Angeles)
• 08/15/2011 — Music Discovery Study Goes To Field
• 07/26/2011 — Research Committee Approves Final Survey For Music Discovery Study
• 07/21/2011 — Research Committee Reviews Second Draft Of Survey For Music Discovery Study
• 06/12/2011 — Research Committee Reviews First Draft Of Survey For Music Discovery Study
• 06/02/2011 — Research Committee Reviews Project Goals For Music Discovery Study
• 05/11/2011 — Music Discovery Study Announced To Membership And Media At NARM 2011 Convention (Los Angeles)
• 05/05/2011 — Research Committee Conference Call To Discuss Music Discovery Study Goals
Participating Companies
Chairman: To be announced
Members include representatives from 7Digital, Amazon, Apple, BigChampagne, Concord Music Group, Disney, EMI, EMusic, Headliner.fm, Interaction Law, Mack Avenue, MediaNet Digital, Mix & Burn, Next Big Sound, Nielsen SoundScan, Nokia, NPD Group, Rdio, RockDex, Sony Music Entertainment, TuneSat, UMGD, Verizon Wireless, and WEA Corp.
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