Live Music Experience is Still the #1 Choice of Fans

NEW YORK - Sept. 19, 2016 - PRLog -- According to the latest Nielsen Music 360 Report, Music fans still prefer live music to digital music. How do people most like to enjoy their music? Live, at least according to the Nielsen Music firm's latest edition of its Music 360 report, which tracks how consumers take in music in today's fractured, multi-platform world.

Of all the ways to experience music, Nielsen found, 36% of consumers' money spent goes toward live events, far and away the most popular way of consuming music.

Of course, that no doubt partly reflects the fact that the cost of tickets for most live events far outpaces the cost of buying downloads, CDs or paying for a monthly streaming subscription.

But in an intriguing facet of the study into the changing habits of fans in an era in which music is increasingly defined by streaming services, 21% of overall music spending still goes toward physical CDs or downloaded digital singles and albums, compared to only 6% to streaming service subscriptions.

Full article at http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-niels...