> -----Original Message----- > From: Tristan Watkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 February 2006 09:17 > > > that article in yesterday's metro about the UK music media > purchased last > year? For albums it was something like 99%+ on CD but for > singles it was > something like 52% mp3, 38% CD and 6% vinyl. I was really > shocked to see > vinyl still has such a big chunk of that market. The article > also said it > was the best year for music sales since 1998, but I think > that meant for UK > domestic artists, which is mostly just a reflection of > Coldplay, Robbie > Williams, James Blunt and Arctic Monkeys.
I read that and saw it on the news too and although the biggest focus of the pieces was on a supposed resurgence of UK artists - the people you mention were all named along with Gorillaz, Kaiser Chiefs, Katy Tunstall (?) - I'm fairly sure that it was music sales as a whole that were up. Wait a minute - I recycle! (even at the office - goes to paper bin, finds Metro). No, maybe I'm wrong, it's a bit unclear whether it means UK artist sales or sales as a whole, sounds like UK but maybe it was the TV stuff that made me think overall. Anyway here's the splits: albums: 99.7% CD 0.2% vinyl 0.1% other (cassette, download etc.) singles: 52% download 39.8% CD 6.5% vinyl 1.7 % other (MD, cassette etc.) think the thing I find odd is the difference between the 2 - obviously there's a body of people who just like to get the latest chart sounds knocking about (who probably account for a good portion of online music sales) much more likely to go for a track but maybe would buy the album on CD but for downloads to be splitting 0.1% with cassettes in LPs and be the majority of single sales is quite a hike.
