Frozen soundtrack beat Taylor Swift's 1989
The Frozen soundtrack was the best-selling album of 2014, selling 10 million copies including streaming equivalents — beating Taylor Swift's 1989.
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Streaming Pivot: Cord Cutting & BAMTech (2015)
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August 4, 2015 is the precise moment the golden age of traditional media ended. For years, everyone had been talking about cord cutting — Netflix was already a $50 billion market cap company — but the affiliate fee revenue numbers kept going up, masking the structural deterioration. Then Eisner's great accidental purchase began to crack. Bob Iger mentioned 'modest ESPN subscriber losses due to cord cutting' in Disney's Q3 2015 earnings call — a careful, almost euphemistic phrase — and the market reacted as if a dam had broken. [1] — David Rosenthal "On August 4, 2015, Bob Iger mentioned on an earnings call that ESPN was experiencing 'modest subscriber losses due to cord cutting.' The ne…" 3:01:01 Disney stock dropped 10% the next day. Fox, Time Warner, and Discovery fell similarly. Viacom, viewed as even more indexed to cable, dropped over 20%. Disney had enjoyed an all-time high stock price that very same day. It has, effectively, never recovered: Disney's stock price in 2026 remains approximately flat to its level that August day, while the S&P 500 has returned 3.5x over the same period. [2] — Ben Gilbert "Disney stock flat for 11 years vs S&P up 3.5x: Disney's stock price in 2026 is roughly where it was in 2015, while the S&P 500 has returned…" 3:04:46 The structural forces that had made Disney fantastically profitable — cable bundle pricing power, the affiliate fee escalator, guaranteed household penetration — had begun to reverse. Everything Disney would do over the next decade was a response to this single data point.
Disney stock flat for 11 years vs S&P up 3.5x
Disney's stock price in 2026 is roughly where it was in 2015, while the S&P 500 has returned approximately 3.5x over the same period.
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