"We've seen phones change over the years. People say, do you see that stopping? In fact, I see it getting quicker," ARM chief marketing officer Ian Drew said at a press event here. "We see the next generation of product coming out with about 3.5 times the performance that you're getting today
While DeCurtis remains optimistic, other music experts remain unsure. With the level of technology today, few people are buying albums anymore. The entertainment director at US Weekly, Ian Drew, cites Pandora and Spotify as streaming services that have greatly reduced the number of album purchases.
that 2014 is not the same as 2012 and the industry landscape has significantly changed from two years ago. Streaming services like Pandora and Spotify are now more popularly used than downloading, while album sales industry-wide are already slumping, says Ian Drew, US Weekly's entertainment director.
"The older audience still likes the feel of buying an album and playing it through," says Ian Drew, entertainment director at Us Weekly. Younger fans "are streaming songs more it's more about the song than the album."
Us Weekly entertainment director Ian Drew figures that fans will be content to hear her music for now. Though Partners arrives in a competitive week, with new releases from Chris Brown, Tim McGraw and Train, Streisand "caters to an older audience, and they're the ones still buying albums," Drew says
I still think lots of money can be made in this industry, said Ian Drew, chief marketing officer of British chip design firm ARM Holdings PLC, whose chip architecture is used in the majority of mobile devices. You just need to adapt to a new world, not staying in the old world. If you stay in the
The first time Textor and his Digital Domain team made a splash was when they presented the late Tupac Shakur rapping alongside Snoop Dogg at 2012's Coachella music festival. After that, full-concert talk was inevitable, says Ian Drew, entertainment director at Us Weekly.
"This is a girl that's been touring since she was a kid," Us Weekly entertainment director Ian Drew says of the former Disney star, whose headlining concerts have amassed $146.2 million since 2007 and filled 96% of seats, according to touring trade publication Pollstar. "She's been raised to do this