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2011 Music Year in Review:
Didn't know where to put this, so since it relates.
http://www.noise11.com/news/retail-sold … dium=email
Retail Sold 69% Of All Music Sales In 2011
by Paul Cashmere on January 5, 2012
Despite the doom and gloom written about music retail 69% of all albums sold in America in 2011 were through retail outlets.
Only 31% of album sales were sold through digital outlets like iTunes, Amazon and eMusic but that was an increase of 5 points on 2010, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Of the 69% of sales at retail 31% were sold though mass merchant outlets like Walmart. Retail chain stores sold 20% of all album purchases in 2011 and Independent stores sold 7% of sales.
The death of the retailer and the CD wasn’t obvious in the end of year data from Nielsen SoundScan. For starters, the biggest selling album of the year was ‘21’ by Adele. It sold 4 million CDs. That was more than double the 1.8 million digital album sales.
Of the 457.7 million album sales in the USA last year less than a quarter were digital (103.1 million).
Album sales were up 3.2% in the USA last year and big sellers appeared to plateau. In 2011, 13 albums sold more than 1 million, the same as in 2010. 35 albums sold between 500,000 and 999,999, the same as 2010 as well.
This one came as a shock to me. What exactly do they consider rock?
http://www.noise11.com/news/rock-rocked … dium=email
Rock Rocked In 2011
by Paul Cashmere on January 5, 2012
Rock was the biggest music genre of 2011 earning 105,685,000 album sales for the music industry.
Rock music had a 1.9% sales increase during 2011 and sold almost double total R&B sales. Also if you combined Rock with Alternative and Metal the figure jumps to around 190,000,000.
The top genres of 2011 according Nielsen SoundScan were:
1. Rock – 105,685,000
2. R&B – 55,435,000
3. Alternative – 55,032,000
4. Country – 42,923,000
5. Metal – 32,206,000
6. Rap – 28,251,000
7. Christian/Gospel – 23,734,000
8. Soundtrack – 13,232,000
9. Latin – 11,814,000
10. Jazz – 11,077,000
11. Electronic – 10.049,000
12. Classical – 9,566,000
13. New Age – 1,929,000
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Believe it or not, and i've heard this advertised several times...
LMFAO, Bruno Mars, Lady GaGa, Justin Bieber have all been referred to as "rock acts".
Somewhere Jimi Hendrix rose from the grave long enough to kill himself, and climb back in.
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Re: Started a music blog (New Posts)
Russ, I enjoyed your Syd article. Syd Barrett was a huge influence in the change of music in general in the late 60s from his song writing to the way he played guitar. Only a few artists ever went out of their way to experiment with that kind of music. I actually listened to a bunch of his solo material that was on youtube and I was quite impressed. Still need to find a copy of some of that good music I get online for a decent price or some store. I was able to catch the VH1 Classic behind the scenes film on Wish You Were Here and there was alot of sadness you could see within some of the band alumni when they go back to the Syd appearance in '75.
