Dog 3000 wrote: zphage wrote: Susan Boyle sold more records last year in the USA than Lady Gaga.
That really cracks me up!
zphage wrote: Vinyl is making a comeback. 2.8 million albums sold as vinyl releases last year and 75% of those sales came from independent retailers.
Only a couple decades ago their were single albums that sold 10 million copies a year in the US alone. Sales are waaaaaay down. There are no more big hits like your "Frampton Comes Alive" or even "Whatever Blind Melon's Hit Album Was Called".
I think the "music artists" who make the big bucks these days are the ones who do endorsement & merchandising deals, "record sales" are just not a very important part of the picture. (Gaga probably still made more money than Susan Boyle.)
also 80% of Susan Boyle's sales were thru non traditional outlets: Walgreens, CVS, supermarkets, gas stations/stopnshop, etc., not music stores.
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