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At the opening of the 9th biennial AustralAsian Music Business Conference August 20-22, 2009, AMBC producers IMMEDIA! have released the fascinating and sometimes alarming statistics of music use piracy and mobile music from over 2000 respondents to a wide ranging online music survey. Industry, government and artist attendees at the event, which features over 50 speakers and nine seminars, will debate the results as part of the programme looking at The Future of Music.
Conducted online at www.TheMusic.com.au the questions explored types of physical music purchased, playback equipment, mobile music trends, downloads and peer to peer file sharing as well as live music. There were 2240 respondents to the 40 questions in the three week survey July 10-30, 2009.
The gender mix was 63% male and 37% female and 50% worked in the music industry of which many were musicians, singer/songwriters, composers, managers, marketing and promotion professionals, journalists and radio--but avid music consumers. The other 50% categorised themselves as non-industry music fans. 22% were either presently students or attended school in the past year.
How they primarily listened to music? Only 7% listened to music via AM or FM radio. 32% listened to music on their computer with speakers or headphones. 21% used a digital music player through a stereo system. 22% used a digital music player with headphones. 16% used a physical product player such as CD or turntable while only 1% primarily listened through streaming radio.
Information source - http://www.themusic.com.au/
Date
Thursday 20 Aug 2009 - Sunday 20 Dec 2009
