[78-L] Sales figures

[Bud Black]

Perhaps the Great Depression had something to do with it.  The average Joe
could hardly afford the luxury of phonograph records when he didn't have a
pot to p**s in.  Especially when radio music was free.

Bud 
 
 
 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: Kristjan Saag
Date: 05/21/11 11:42:25
To: 78-L Mail List
Subject: Re: [78-L] Sales figures
 
10 million in 1931, 6 million in 1932 - seems likely.
Another interesting figure is foound in Louis Barfe's "Where Have All
The Good Times Gone? - The Rise And Fall Of The Record Industry" (London
2004): in 1927 Victor sold 37.6 million records.
That would be more than a third of the total US sales, if we believe
Gelatt's figures.
Kristjan
 
 
 
David Lennick wrote:
>
>    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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