New vinyl releases today are primarily a high cost, $15-$30, high sound quaity, audiophile reissue market from all the indications I have, catalogs, online stores, record reviews, what my friends and assocites buy new on occasion, etc. Dance music in general is a very small genre and generally not "audiophile" in nature compared to rock, jazz, and classical so its highly unlikely to be the bulk of newly pressed records being sold today.
Even if six out of the "top ten" vinyl sellers were new 2008 music releases, I don't see those as mostly dance, and would not necessisarily mean that that 2008 music dominated or even is a significant percentage of all newly mfgr vinyl sales, there are lots and lots of legacy titles being reissued now/recently on vinyl LP, far more than new 2008 title release on vinyl, the sum of which is probably far more than all six of those top 10 sellers combined. I would also suggest, that with the collapse of music sales due to internet theft, the relatively expensive nature of buying a new mfd LP compared to a CD or MP3 digital version is going to skew new LP sales even further towards the audiophile reissue market in years to come as that's the sole reason left to buy any LPs, better possible sound than CD or mp3. I just don't see the dance/DJ market as being significant in any way compared to the audiophile market, now or in the future. -- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:hifis...@gate.net) Join the CD PLAYER & DISC Discussions : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ -----Original Message----- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of steve harley Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 8:31 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Vinyl vs. Digital On 2009-11-20 10:59 , J.C. O'Connell wrote: > NO, but I read many music and hi-fi periodicals > and see all the vendors catalogs too, its not a market > of dance tracks or new title SACDs, it a big reissue market of > specially pressed discs, mostly 180gram vinyl. i think it's probably a split market, you're seeing the audiophile side of it and i'm seeing the DJ/pop side though i can find numbers for overall vinyl sales (increasing rapidly, but still a miniscule proportion), and tons of commentary, no one seems to have the numbers by type of release or genre; even Nielsen Soundscan is going to miss a lot of the dance tracks because it doesn't cover all sales; Nielsen, for what it's worth, shows six out of ten top vinyl sellers last year were new releases: <http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/news/neilson-soundscan-2008-sa les-f/> but that's not a good way to summarize the market note that i don't buy any type of newly-issued vinyl -- i only buy old scratchy stuff -- more fun and "vinyl charm", less fuss > Regarding "proof" to back up my contentions, where?s > the "proof" for yours concerning nre release SACD or dance tracks > outselling legacy vinyl reissues???? i didn't ask for proof, just anything to support what you were stating as fact; unlike you, i don't have a contention here -- i stated my _impression_; and i haven't said anything about SACD at all in this thread meanwhile: <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/nov/20/linn-audio-stream ing-cd-players> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
