On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] >> > >> Music loving audiophiles are not a large market and they >> don't tend to buy as much volume. Teenagers who want to be >> famous are a large market and one who tends to buy a lot of volume. > [...] > > Here are some hard stats from people who know: > http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/cd_sales_down_lp_sales_up > > >
And some real-world stats: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1529059/Why-singles-are-top-of-the-pops-again.html Those are UK numbers though, which pretty strongly show that the big seller is 7" singles, with over a million sold in 2005 in the UK alone. Over here, for full albums it's: http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/news/neilson-soundscan-2008-sales-f/ with only 2 classic rock reissues on the list (along with a pair of non-classic reissues and 5 new albums). Note that this is for albums and the dance/electronica/hip-hop scene is mostly singles. One of those albums is however an electronica release, Third from Portishead. It's pretty clear from that sales list that Audiophiles are not the biggest driver of LP album sales unless they're also big Radiohead fans. And that the market for LP's is not as big as for singles (I wasn't able to find any US sales numbers for singles. But if the much smaller UK market is selling 1 million+ singles, the US market is likely even larger for singles than for albums). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
