On Nov 21, 2009, at 9:09 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote: > Your post is not clear if your being serious or > sarcastic. I will state what I have been saying > all along,
Mark! > I don't believe the majority of > new vinyl sales in 2009 is dance records as suggested, its > mostly reissues of classic rock, jazz and classical. > I have been follwing the "new" LP market for 20 years > since the low point in '89 or so when everybody > thought vinyl was dead for good. While there are a > lot of dance releases on vinyl that are new for > 2009 music, that's not where the bulk of vinyl > sales come from. It's now an expensive audiophile format dominated > by new release reissues of classic recordings > from the latter half of the 30th century. > > -- > 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: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:56 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: OT: Vinyl vs. Digital : One retailers sales data > > > On 2009-11-21 04:11 , J.C. O'Connell wrote: >> http://store.acousticsounds.com/index.cfm?get=topsellers&Top_Count=100 >> &f >> ield_cat=5 > > interesting; this "very large and popular vinyl retailer" carries 27 > vinyl releases in the hip hop/rap category, 14 in funk, then there's > electronica, with zero releases; R&B/soul is tops with 536; oh, and the > top-selling turntable at Acoustic Sounds only costs $2500; hmm, > obviously not a quality retailer ... > > by comparison, Amazon carries 14752 vinyl rap & hip hop releases, 28781 > for dance & DJ; and Amazon carries almost 30 times as many R&B vinyl > releases as Acoustic Sounds > > i don't doubt that the "thick vinyl" crowd is growing rapidly, but i > don't think its safe to draw further conclusions from the few hard facts > > you and i can find > > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
