Posted May 24, 201312 yr You don't even need 300 copies to make the top 100 so the amount needed for the top 1500 must be a very interesting one indeed.
May 24, 201312 yr I think Vidcapper will be able to tell you what each position (#600, #700 etc, no precise numbers) sells on average for the whole week, but probably not actually the amount needed just to enter, if that made any scene at all. :P
May 24, 201312 yr I think the sales needed to get to whatever position plateaus pretty far up, so although there's a massive difference between say #40 and #100, there's a very small difference between #100 and #160 etc. vidcapper will be able to provide better info but I think the answer may be higher than you imagine. (I also don't think it's quite as low as 300 sales for #100? Though it depends on the day of course, Sunday's #100 sales will be higher than say Wednesday's).
May 24, 201312 yr Well, I base my calculations on an estimate that the overall #1500 will be selling ~300/wk, and given that the iTunes market share is probably 2/3rds, then we're talking 200/wk (30/day) for an iTunes #1500. This year the overall #100 has been averaging 2.8k/wk, and the #200 1.35-1.4k/wk. Edited May 24, 201312 yr by vidcapper
May 24, 201312 yr I'm sure iTunes' share is much higher than that? (Maybe only for the higher chart placings I guess).
May 24, 201312 yr I'm sure iTunes' share is much higher than that? (Maybe only for the higher chart placings I guess). I'm confident I've actually over-estimated their share slightly...
May 24, 201312 yr I wish we could see the acutal amount of sales for each song and how they deduct a certain amount of sales every 30 minutes. All we got is Digital Sales Data which may not be accurate. http://digitalsalesdata.com/diydsd.php?Region=143444 Edited May 24, 201312 yr by Det fornuftige
May 25, 201312 yr Why is it not accurate? Because, as it says in the website : 'Since actual sales figures are no longer available, the following figures have been generated by a statistical model.'
May 25, 201312 yr I think the sales needed to get to whatever position plateaus pretty far up, so although there's a massive difference between say #40 and #100, there's a very small difference between #100 and #160 etc. vidcapper will be able to provide better info but I think the answer may be higher than you imagine. (I also don't think it's quite as low as 300 sales for #100? Though it depends on the day of course, Sunday's #100 sales will be higher than say Wednesday's). I would guess that the sales figures at the bottom of the chart are relatively stable throughout the week as, in general, they will not be new releases
May 25, 201312 yr I would guess that the sales figures at the bottom of the chart are relatively stable throughout the week as, in general, they will not be new releases It's not to do with new releases, because Friday and Saturday also have higher sales than Wednesday, and they're at the very end of the sales week. I think the number of downloads just increases on those days because it's the weekend. But yeah, the sales of the #1500 will obviously fluctuate less than the sales of the #1.
May 26, 201312 yr I would guess that the sales figures at the bottom of the chart are relatively stable throughout the week as, in general, they will not be new releases That might not be the case, actually... I've been checking my weekly sales records, dividing the standard deviation by the mean for each chart position. It turns out that only sales in the T5 swing wildly from week to week - for all positions below that (at least for #6-#200) the SD of weekly sales is consistantly 1/5th to 1/6th of the mean. I know you were talking of daily variations, rather than weekly, but I see no reason to suspect the above pattern would be any different. Edited May 26, 201312 yr by vidcapper
May 28, 201312 yr Does anybody have information on sales in the itunes album rather than singles chart? Haven't seen much of that around, would be interesting.
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