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Good news!
I wonder if there is any data for sales of LP's that are not purely reissues.
Man, looking back, just for scale, Fleetwood Mac's LP sales of Rumors alone are likely larger than total vinyl sales in the last 20 years.
My favorite part of the article is the very last bit:
of course it does. I'm only unhappy I wasn't consulted for the story, since as we all know it's all about MIKEY! People who dismiss vinyl because of the small percentage of overall sales should therefore dismiss Apple, which has but a tiny percent of the computer market. Of course influence is not necessarily dependent upon gross numbers...
Hell, most people don't buy new MP3's!
Radiohead are the Beatles of modern vinyl.
Go, Neutral Milk Hotel!
Here's a link to a true curmudgeon's take from the end of 2008. Some people actively seem to hate the notion of us enjoying our vinyl!
Full article.
I give him credit for some of his points, but geez, cheer up, buddy!
I'm most surprised by the G'n'R sales. People bought that?
I refuse to believe that that dweeb enjoys vinyl as much as I do.
Got those rose tinted glasses on again. Just how many used CD's do you think are sold by Amazon alone? Will make used LP sales look like the niche it truly is...growing sure but still tiny niche. Expect used CD sales to keep on growing as more people download their collections.
No used MP3 sales? first Napster, then the flurry of almost-unstoppable peer-to-peer networks that followed, like Kazaa, Grokster, Bearshare, Limewire, and Gnuetella....ok so they are not called sales......
Sigh. It kinda breaks my heart every time I have to say this, but here goes: I WAS JUST KIDDING.
most of the new release vinyl seems to be coming out on indie labels, so, maybe with the low overhead, they can make a small profit. the fleet foxes album was under $20, so was iron and wine. it is the reissues that seem to demand the high bucks.
Yeah, the albums I buy usually cost anywhere between $10 and $20, which is right around the same price as their compact disc counterparts. Reissues from 4 Men With Beards and Sundazed are also often in the $15-$20 range.
"By 2003, Rumours had sold over 19 million copies in the U.S. alone (certified as a diamond album by the RIAA), and a total of 40 million copies worldwide, maintaining its status as one of the biggest-selling albums of all time."
Stephen:
you are too young to remember when cds first appeard, but adjusted for inflation, the $17-$20 is pretty close to the $8.99 i was paying before i quit buying lps in 83-84. i bought a fair number of new records to that point. cds at that time (83-84)were sold only in hi-fi stores and were about $20 then (didn't make it into record stores until around 86 or so). i always felt that once cds caught on that the price should have gone down to around the $10 range given that the production and especially the packaging costs had to be so much lower. i was not particularly happy when they came to rest at about $15-16 and consequently probably bought far fewer in the 80s and 90s than i would have had the price been more reasonable. of course, we all know that the major labels are now reaping what they have sewn.
Here's an interesting Reuters article that discusses vinyl
As a record buyer, these often quoted Nielsen numbers have as much relevance as the Billboard 100. From a business perspective, I'd certainly want more data before coming to any conclusions.
The other thing I'll say as a record buyer is there are more new releases of new music on vinyl than anyone can keep track of (or afford). Which makes for one sated and happy record-buying music-lover. Burp.