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mié 23-mar-2005 21:47
Esto lo leí por ahí... Me pareció interesante... (especialmente el hecho de que el 77% de los cd's en USA venden menos de mil copias)
Sundscan es un sistema que lee los codigos de barras de los cd's, los charts se hacen en base a eso.
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According to Soundscan, there were 39,000 records released in the United States last year. This figure only includes records reported to the Valley District Database, which is the beginning of the Soundscan chain. It doesn't include the record you made to sell at gigs, or that charming Love Songs of the Aeolian Flute� CD you see advertised on late night TV. These 39,000 records were released on bona fide labels, that do business through major distributors.
77% of all the records released sold 999 copies or less.
52 records, representing only .13% (point one three percent) of the total released, accounted for 37% of the total Soundscanned sales volume.
What does this mean to us, particularly if we're hoping for a major label contract?
30,030 records released sold less than 999 copies. 8,970 sold 1,000 or more. Your chance of having a record that sells more than 999 copies is one in four, or 25%. Not too bad so far.
Your chance of being one of the 52 records that accounted for 37% of all sales is 1 in 750, or .0013. Your chance of having a substantial hit is 1 chance in every 750 records released. Dismal, isn't it?
And thats not even looking at the fact that most of those 52 records have at least three hit singles coming off them, and shoot for six or seven. If you factor that in, your chances of having a hit single drop to 1 out of every 3,000-5,000 records released, because your lone single is competing with the 200-500 singles those 52 records account for through the year.
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