A Look At The Top 6 U.S. Music Download Stores
A sample purchase of 10 rock, folk, country, and classical albums including six recent releases and four back catalog showed a distinct difference in the purchase price of tracks.
The comparison is particularly interesting since iTunes owns Lala.
SELECTION – According eMarketer in January of this year, iTunes had roughly 11 million tracks, Amazon sold 10 million and Lala offered 8 million. Rhapsody, eMusic, and the Zune Marketplace each had 6 million tracks to choose from. (via ZDNet)
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Great information — that kind of data is hard to come by. Love to see a comparison of the percentage musicians earn back. The really dark side about the stats is that there are close to 50 million tracks available for sale but just 30% are purchased. (via IT Facts )http://www.itfacts.biz/33-of-all-music-sold-in-2008-was-digital/12867)
That means about 15 million tracks haven’t seen the light of day – and most of those unsold tracks are by indie musicians. Granted, some of the music posted are badly produced or performed – assuming 50% of the unsold music is trash, music retailers still have 7 million viable tracks to help promote.
These retailers aren’t really indie friendly. If I had an inventory of 7 million tracks, I sure would do my best to get that inventory sold. Would do a lot for their bottom lines (not to mention indie artists).
Deborah
“The Music Marketing Maven”
http://www.risingstarartists.com