i guess synthesis is what i do here, so here’s a quickie on the business of music…<\/p>\n
with a nod to barry ritholtz<\/a>, whom i’ve neglected for too many moons, and john buckman<\/a>, whom i’ve pretty much neglected since i dropped some first impressions<\/a> here… two statistics worth considering from very different sources, but mostly about that<\/a> little The average retail price of full-length CDs fell to $13.29 in the first quarter of 2004<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The average purchase price for Magnatune albums in April was $8.59<\/p><\/blockquote>\n anyone want to guess which statistic is closer to “real market value”?<\/p>\n update<\/strong> 8:30am: barry responded to this in the ungodly hours of the morning, so i was inspired to go after another metric i knew i could put my fingers on quickly:<\/p>\n cd baby current numbers<\/a>: that works out to $7.895 per cd, plus the $4-per-cd terms<\/a> that cd baby works under, makes the average retail price of cds that move through cd baby $11.895. i do have to note that this is the average of all cd’s ever sold through cd baby, which is not a good comparison for the spot-prices of the other metrics in this post, so take it for what it’s worth…. maybe we can encourage cd baby<\/a> and magnatune<\/a> to publish monthly data (that seems like a reasonable sampling window) and see what’s hiding in there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" i guess synthesis is what i do here, so here’s a quickie on the business of music… with a nod to barry ritholtz, whom i’ve neglected for too many moons, and john buckman, whom i’ve pretty much neglected since i dropped some first impressions here… two statistics worth considering from very different sources, but mostly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n1,007,312 CDs sold online to customers.
\n$7,953,216.85 paid to artists.<\/p>\n