KlingKlang 1 Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Found this interesting. I'm presuming it leaves out all the "illegal" stuff. Quote: The arrival of downloading music online has meant that more and more tracks have been available to the general public than ever before. The problem with this is consumers haven't been able to see the wood for the trees and have decidedly stuck to what they know when downloading music. Recent figures suggest that out of the 13 million tracks available for download, just 52,000 songs made up 80 per cent of music purchased online. When it comes to albums, a staggering 1.23 million albums were made available with just 173,000 bought – which equates to 85 per cent of bands and singers who released an album this year did not sell one single copy. New schools meet old rules These online music statistics were compiled by Will Page, chief economist of the MCPS-PRS Alliance, and Andrew Bud, the head of mobile software company mBlox. Speaking to the Times about their findings, Bud said: "There is an eerie similarity between a digital and high-street retailer in terms of what constitutes an efficient inventory and the shape of their respective demand curves. "I think there's something more going on there: a case of new schools meets old rules." Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Certainly interesting. Unlike Zavvi, HMV etc, online unsold 'stock' ain't taking up much stock room space though is it? Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 No... I used to work in a music shop way back in the dark ages when CD's were the NEW thing, and we had about 20 titles total - the majority of sales were still LP and Cassette. It was my first real job the summer between Yr10 and Yr 11 (84/85). Records and Cassette that did not sell and we decided to pull got sent back to the record company, so the store was not taking the hit by holding that stock. That always struck me as odd - I would have thought the responsibility to buy well and move stock was on the business owner rather than the wholesaler... Brave new world this digital age. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Even so, online doesn't really cost anyone much "space" in the same way a physical produce does, does it? (Does it??) Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Quality needs to be raised for me to download. I never liked cassettes, who bought those? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 I bought vinyl and recorded to tape for walkman and car. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 I like the cd in my hands. I like the printed garb on the covers. Downloading is no fun. Link to post Share on other sites
keba 0 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Originally Posted By: muikabochi I never liked cassettes, who bought those? I did, had a biggish collection, for play in the car mainly. Only ever bought a few vinyl albums. Went early into CD's and recently tossed out all my cassettes, mainly because I never listen to them anymore. Download a few tracks from iTunes if I can't be bothered buying the whole album. Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 I don't like the way artists are increasing releasing "download only". Unless they download CD quality files - many don't. I want the CD too. Link to post Share on other sites
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