dream on, while there are very large number of NEW MUSiC titles in hip hop and dance, this is not the same as overall new LPs mfg and sold in all genres and including reissues. Dance/hip hop titles are popular on vinyl for DJS, the average dance/hip fan doesn't use LP or even CD either, they are on the free MP3 train with nearly everybody else. You are completely wrong about what the LP market is today, its for audiophiles and high end gear, there is no point in even using vinyl unless you get better sound or are a DJ but Id bet music loving audiophiles with LP rigs outnumbers DJs by 100 to 1.
-- 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 Adam Maas Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:14 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Vinyl vs. Digital : One retailers sales data 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. -- 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.
