Julf wrote: > It is always easy to do dramatic increase from "almost nothing" to "very > little" :) > > "In November 2014, it was reported that over one million vinyl records > had been sold in the UK since the beginning of the year. Sales had not > reached this level since 1996. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) > predicted that Christmas sales would bring the total for the year to > around 1.2 million. However, vinyl sales were still a very small > proportion of total music sales. Pink Floyds The Endless River became > the fastest-selling UK vinyl release of 2014 - and the fastest-selling > since 1997 - despite selling only 6,000 copies." > > 18428
Another interesting graph... Volume and value in sales based on RIAA US numbers (from 'this page' (http://blog.thecurrent.org/2014/02/40-years-of-album-sales-data-in-one-handy-chart/)): 18432 "Fastest selling since 1997" isn't bad but we're talking about LP numbers just around the peak of CD sales which would have been around 2000 in terms of unit sales. I think what could be interesting to see is something like a zoomed in graph of unit vs. sales$$$ between the different formats in the last 10 years. Unit cost for an LP is substantially higher than the same CD and digtal downloads. Despite small sales numbers, the amount of money actually made from the LP could actually be gaining substantially since the 2012 graph, outstripping the number of units sold; hence incentive to push LP sales and release of special remaster / box sets. Although of course we don't know what the manufacturing cost looks like and whether the actual margin is getting better due to inflation. Ultimate, it is the number sold that's best indicator of popularity since they cannot be replicated like digital. But I think the spread between that and $$$ could be an interesting indicator of "hype incentive" for companies. Curious, do many of you guys buy much NEW vinyl these days? (Here's the inflation adjusted $$$ numbers for completeness - I must say the sales numbers for cassette was pretty good even up to 2000!) 18431 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: units-vs-dollars-riaa-1260x632.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=18432| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Archimago's Musings: (archimago.blogspot.com) A 'more objective' audiophile blog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104038
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