I was appalled to see just how low album sales were this week at just 1.29mil for the whole market. I don't remember ever seeing them so low but MW failed to mention it particularly. Does anyone know if they've been lower? Did some digging and found the following from last year but short of reading every MW report since not sure how to find out - anyone have a list of the lowest and know if this is the worst?

 

"Overall album sales are 27.62% down week-on-week at 1,446,218 - that is 23.19% below same week 2011 sales of 1,882,878, and lower than in any of the 640 previous weeks that have elapsed in the 21st century"

 

(Excerpt from MW 16/04/12)

 

Obviously a quiet time of year but should we expect lower, or a recovery?

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I was appalled to see just how low album sales were this week at just 1.29mil for the whole market. I don't remember ever seeing them so low but MW failed to mention it particularly. Does anyone know if they've been lower? Did some digging and found the following from last year but short of reading every MW report since not sure how to find out - anyone have a list of the lowest and know if this is the worst?

 

"Overall album sales are 27.62% down week-on-week at 1,446,218 - that is 23.19% below same week 2011 sales of 1,882,878, and lower than in any of the 640 previous weeks that have elapsed in the 21st century"

 

(Excerpt from MW 16/04/12)

 

Obviously a quiet time of year but should we expect lower, or a recovery?

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As of 18/8/12, the total was just 1,303,994, an 842 week low - see :

 

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...t=0&start=0

 

They should start to recover a bit from this week!

News flash from The 15 Year Old Times: people don't buy albums as much in the summer. Coming up: people who get gift cards for Christmas download songs that have been out for three months.

As of 18/8/12, the total was just 1,303,994, an 842 week low - see :

 

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...t=0&start=0

thanks vid, can rely on you with the sales data! I haven't really been reading the sales over the summer so I know they've probably been dire for weeks. I forgot that Rihanna's all time low was also such a low sales week overall.

Last week was even lower still however, and is only slightly higher than that week in '96 nearly 900 weeks ago so you'd think MW may have mentioned. I appreciate the end of summer is always a bad time and inevitably things like Xmas will increase sales significantly as always but it is a downward spiral at the moment and unless download albums can finally adequately pick up the slack we are heading for an all time low (well since 1994 when they started counting properly at least).

 

I would also say in general there have been so few good albums out this year - I thought this last year but it seems even worse - i'm probably just getting old.. :arrr:

:wub:

 

News flash from The 15 Year Old Times: people don't buy albums as much in the summer. Coming up: people who get gift cards for Christmas download songs that have been out for three months.

 

Even as someone who's bought loads of albums this year I've not downloaded anything for weeks, just one album added since 2/7 and there's nothing out either this week or next that interests me either.