On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 6:47 PM, J.C. O'Connell <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, there are some, but I am not going > to buy for one second the premise that > the majority of newly mfd record sales > in 2009 is dance records, that is just > way way too small of a genre/market > compared to reissue rock, jazz, classical > and the whole thing doesn't make sense > from the audiophile standpoint either, > most people buying records in the year > 2009 a doing so for solely for sound > quality reasons and want the best sounding > recordings of all time ( reissues), not because they are > apprenticing to be a pro DJ and want > to sping the latest Madonna record... > I know lots of guys with great systems > and LP rigs, and none of them are doing > it for DJ reasons or dance music, NONE. > -- > J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected])
And your provincialism shows. Dance and electronica are huge markets overall. It's the dominant musical form in Europe and Asia and extremely popular in North America (Coming in fourth after R&B/Hip-Hop, Pop and Country). Most people buying records today are doing it because the latest remixes's and tracksare only available in 7" or 12" form from stores. A lot of dance music is only ever released in MP3/AAC and 7" or 12" Vinyl forms with no CD release at all as the genre is almost entirely single-driven (albums are rare in Dance music, most CD's are compilations Those that aren't are mostly buying Brit-rock singles (pretty much every major single from any significant UK band active today is available as a 7" single). Of course the guys you know aren't doing it for DJ reasons or dance music. They're most likely Audiophiles and older and thus completely non-repressentative of the music market which is utterly dominated by the 16-25 year olds who are far and away the primary consumers. The Dance music market is even more oriented towards the younger crowd than the overall music market. Talk to some of them sometime and you'll be surprised who's got vinyl. The numbers simply don't lie. And you haven't provided a single one which contradicts the numbers I've posted. -- 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.
