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| From | Ralph Alfonso <ralph@nettwerk.com> |
| Subject | Soundscan |
| Date | Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:27:15 -0800 |
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>Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:31:08 -0500
>From: "josh chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com>
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: Here's the Low Down on Owsley
>Message-ID: <002401c2d75a$607a2000$6901a8c0@JoshLaptop>
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>You know, I suspect that the widely held belief that CD sales are down may
>be a myth. Rather, I wonder if it is possible that CD sales through
>traditional, measured channels are down, as labels drop artists who then
>sell CDs through alternative channels. (Including sales at shows.)
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>The industry source for tracking sales is Soundscan. I'm curious. If I buy
>a CD from Not Lame or Parasol, does Soundscan ever know about it?
only if they are hooked up to Soundscan and/or do manual reporting
the originating label must have registered with Soundscan also,
otherwise they have
no record of your release... so yeah, sales info go in but can't be
allocated to anything :(
>Recently
>I bought 2 CDs each directly from Joe Jackson and Rikki Lee Jones, in each
>case from their websites. Does Soundscan know about these?
no, i doubt it, unless the artist does a manual reporting.
All the big touring bands run their live gig sales into Soundscan...
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>I am not asking rhetorical questions; I honestly don't know if these kinds
>of sales are tracked. But there is no question that over the past several
>years, my music buying behavior, and that of people I know who buy a lot of
>music, has been such that it is decidedly shifting away from major labels
>and traditional retail channels. So I can't help wondering whether what is
>really going on is a shift away from sales that are tracked as the industry
>fragments.
no. So, while traditional record store sales may be down.... the alternatives
are probably high. For example, in canada, i've sold more Kimberley rew cds
on mail order than I've done at retail. A lot of stores here will not
stock new releases.
They enter the info in their database & only order when a customer
asks for it as a
special order....I usually buy on impulse or go down the street if
one store doesn't have
what i want....
so yeah.... there is a HUGE chunk of sales NOT being reported to
Soundscan (including non-Soundscan
stores)
if anyone on this list has insight on how indie labels/bands can
input web/live sales, please
let us know
Ralph
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