On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 6:13 PM, J.C. O'Connell <[email protected]> wrote: > these are the top sellers, these are not total sales. > A few new for 2009 releases may out sell any or even > ALL the particular classic rock, jazz, titles but in > total there are tons tons tons more of the classic > rock, jazz, classical titles coming out and selling. > The entire top 10 sellers could be radiohead, but > that doesn't mean the marker isnt dominated by sales > of reissues, it IS. and they are audiophiles buying > those for sound quality reasons, not because they > wanna be DJs. > > -- > J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected])
Well, aside from the fact that those are the top selling albums, and reissues don't feature prominently aside from one massively hyped release (Abbey Road) and Floyd, which is a perennial teenage favourite. And the problem that singles aren't counted at all by Neilsen, where they are counted in the UK they absolutely dominate a smaller market (and singles are almost all new stuff, not reissues). All the sales data available indicates that it's the 16-25 set which has been driving vinyl sales and they are rarely either Audiophiles or reissue collectors. I don't doubt that reissues dominate the audiophile market. Audiophiles are mostly older and will primarily be looking for the music of their youth (which is true for most everybody over 30) so reissues will dominate that market. But that's only a fraction of the vinyl market overall as the sales numbers I linked to above indicate. Unless you have sales numbers indicating that reissues in the audiophile market are collectively a million+ market (as fresh singles are in the UK alone) I think the numbers are pretty cut & dried. -- 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.
