On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:09 PM, J.C. O'Connell <hifis...@gate.net> wrote: > Your post is not clear if your being serious or > sarcastic. I will state what I have been saying > all along, 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)
Vinyl is HUGE in the hip-hop, dance and electronica worlds and they're far, far larger markets than the Audiophile market. I'd strongly suspect that those markets outsell the classic rock, jazz and classical markets by a large margin. The Audiophile market is tiny compared to a market where vinyl is a big deal and where large acts can fill stadiums on a regular basis. Big acts You aren't a proper dance or electronica DJ unless you're spinning on a pair of turntables. Jazz and classical are tiny markets overall, classic rock is larger, but compared to the dance, hip-hop and electronica markets it's also fairly small these days. If you're involved with the classic rock, jazz and classical vinyl scene you'll likely never see the other side since they don't really mix well. But the big acts can sell 0.1% of their album sales in vinyl and still sell 10,000+ copies per album. That adds up right quick when you have a couple dozen major releases a year in that segment (and thousands of smaller ones). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
