Have album sales ever been this low?
01-14-09, 03:22 PM
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Have album sales ever been this low?
Today, Yahoo music news reports that this week's number one album, Taylor Swift's "Fearless", sold just 72,000 copies. That seems really low to me. Makes me wonder how many copies the number #200 album sold.
01-14-09, 03:54 PM
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Re: Have album sales ever been this low?
01-14-09, 08:57 PM
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Simple solution for the industry: Bring CD prices below $10 on every single-disc product. I'm much more willing and likely to "take a chance" on an unknown or partially-known album at $7-10 than I am at $15+. At the higher price, you're going to have people who would normally buy albums not buying, and those who illegally download most of their music wouldn't even give such a price a second glance.
For me $10 is a psychological barrier when it comes to CDs. I generally don't purchase anything above that cost unless it is by a musician whose work I like a lot.
For me $10 is a psychological barrier when it comes to CDs. I generally don't purchase anything above that cost unless it is by a musician whose work I like a lot.
01-15-09, 09:14 AM
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Taylor Swift pictures here.
I wonder if that number includes digital copies. I hear digital copies are quite popular these days.
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01-15-09, 03:19 PM
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From Billboard.com:
Data for Billboard's sales charts -- which include all of our album charts -- are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a universe of merchants that represents more than 90% of the U.S. music retail market. The sample includes not only music stores and the music departments at electronics and department stores, but also direct-to-consumer transactions and Internet sales (both physical albums via Internet, and ones bought via digital downloads). A limited array of verifiable sales from concert venues is also tabulated.
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I suppose when you take the digital albums into account, things are that bad. But when you look at just physical sales...yeah they are down big time.
01-15-09, 05:37 PM
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I'm gonna assume they don't count CD's that are bought at concerts and what not. Do they also count sales at the myspace page?
01-15-09, 06:46 PM
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well, album sales are usually in the toilet when we're in a big recession. Weren't album sales doing terrible around 1980-1982 (before Thriller came out and MTV started getting big) when there was a recession as well?
01-16-09, 01:52 AM
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all I know is that I weep for these united states of embarrassment everytime I review EW's listing of the top albums sold....
last week's rundown included such stunners in the top 10 as:
the aforementioned Taylor Swift
Twilight Soundtrack
Nickelback
Britney Spears
Jaime Foxx (WTF??!)
and...drumroll please.....NOW That's What I Call Music 29
hooray!
last week's rundown included such stunners in the top 10 as:
the aforementioned Taylor Swift
Twilight Soundtrack
Nickelback
Britney Spears
Jaime Foxx (WTF??!)
and...drumroll please.....NOW That's What I Call Music 29
hooray!
01-16-09, 11:56 AM
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Re: Have album sales ever been this low?
Simple solution for the industry: Bring CD prices below $10 on every single-disc product. I'm much more willing and likely to "take a chance" on an unknown or partially-known album at $7-10 than I am at $15+. At the higher price, you're going to have people who would normally buy albums not buying, and those who illegally download most of their music wouldn't even give such a price a second glance.
For me $10 is a psychological barrier when it comes to CDs. I generally don't purchase anything above that cost unless it is by a musician whose work I like a lot.
For me $10 is a psychological barrier when it comes to CDs. I generally don't purchase anything above that cost unless it is by a musician whose work I like a lot.
Originally Posted by Hiro11
Who the eff buys cds these days?