Re: [ARSCLIST] SACD et al. sales figures

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

With SACD, I think the real story on sales would be Japan and USA. I betcha Europe sales are dwarfed 
by Japan but I might be wrong.

Does Soundscan tally separate SACD sales? But there again, I'm not sure how much Soundscan data 
would mean since I betcha most USA sales of SACD are via internet outlets like Acoustic Sounds and 
Amazon.

If Germany sales were 200,000 in 2006, I'd estimate worldwide total sales (all titles) were between 
5 and 10 million. I know, very large varience and hence useless statistic, just an estimate.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Richter" <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] SACD et al. sales figures


> G. W. Ulrich Sieveking wrote:
> > There has been a discussion about sales figures of high resolution digital media on this list 
> > recently, so here are at least the figures for Germany for 2006 as compiled by the German branch 
> > of IFPI (all numbers are millions, the complete report can be seen here: 
> > http://www.ifpi.de/wirtschaft/jahreswirtschaftsbericht_2006.pdf):
>
> Unfortunately, the site cannot be found as given. Drop off the punctuation at the end to get
>   http://www.ifpi.de/wirtschaft/jahreswirtschaftsbericht_2006.pdf
> and the page works, but does not open for me in FireFox. However, it can be saved from there, 
> opens standalone, and proves to have other useful data.
>
> Mike
> --
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