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Thursday, July 22, 2010

98k albums, minute no. of hits

FUN WITH NUMBERS: At New Music Seminar yesterday, Tommy Silverman and Eric Garland broke out some facinating stats that show how few albums actually generate significant sales and how overcrowded with dreck the field is.

Albums that sold at least one copy in 2009: 98,000
Albums selling more than 10,000 units in 2009: 1,319
Albums selling more than 10,000 units in 2008: 1,515
Albums selling more than 250,000 units in 2009: 85
Albums selling more than 250,000 units in 2001: 214
Albums selling more than 5,000 units in 2009: 2,058
Albums selling under than 1,000 units in their first year of release: 92,601
Number of albums selling less than 100 copies in 2009: 81,000
These figures were gleaned from SoundScan and passed along by Digital Music News. (7/22a)

 
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