[78-L] Sales figures

[David Lennick]

 From Tin Foil To Stereo gives slightly more conservative figures for 
1931.."from a high of over 100 million discs per year to about 10 million".

dl

On 5/21/2011 10:51 AM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> Mark Bardenwerper asked:
>>    Is there any credence to the statement, "By 1932
>> total record sales in the US hit an all-time low of 6 million,
>> contrasting with the high of 140 million in 1927"?
>> ---
> Roland Gelatt has the following on p 255 in his "The Fabulous
> Phonograph"  (1955 edition):
>
> "A total of six million records were sold in the United States during
> 1932, approximately six per cent of the total record sales in
> 1927...What had happened to the phonograph? Why had record sales dropped
> from 104,000,000 discs in 1927 to 6,000,000 in 1932...?"
> ---
> Maybe the 140 million figure given by Burke was a typo.
> Kristjan
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