these are the top sellers, these are not total sales. A few new for 2009 releases may out sell any or even ALL the particular classic rock, jazz, titles but in total there are tons tons tons more of the classic rock, jazz, classical titles coming out and selling. The entire top 10 sellers could be radiohead, but that doesn't mean the marker isnt dominated by sales of reissues, it IS. and they are audiophiles buying those for sound quality reasons, not because they wanna be DJs.
-- 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 3:40 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Vinyl vs. Digital : One retailers sales data On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Bob W <p...@web-options.com> wrote: > [...] >> > >> Music loving audiophiles are not a large market and they don't tend >> to buy as much volume. Teenagers who want to be famous are a large >> market and one who tends to buy a lot of volume. > [...] > > Here are some hard stats from people who know: > http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/cd_sales_down_lp_sales_up > > > And some real-world stats: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1529059/Why-singles-are-top-of-th e-pops-again.html Those are UK numbers though, which pretty strongly show that the big seller is 7" singles, with over a million sold in 2005 in the UK alone. Over here, for full albums it's: http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/news/neilson-soundscan-2008-sal es-f/ with only 2 classic rock reissues on the list (along with a pair of non-classic reissues and 5 new albums). Note that this is for albums and the dance/electronica/hip-hop scene is mostly singles. One of those albums is however an electronica release, Third from Portishead. It's pretty clear from that sales list that Audiophiles are not the biggest driver of LP album sales unless they're also big Radiohead fans. And that the market for LP's is not as big as for singles (I wasn't able to find any US sales numbers for singles. But if the much smaller UK market is selling 1 million+ singles, the US market is likely even larger for singles than for albums). -- 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.
