What proportion of the total singles market do their sales comprise, and more specifically what proportion of the higher chart positions?

What proportion of the total singles market do their sales comprise, and more specifically what proportion of the higher chart positions?

 

I guess the deafening silence means no-one here really knows. :)

 

Does anyone know if their chart based on daily sales, or a longer period, then?

Edited September 30, 200816 yr by vidcapper

What proportion of the total singles market do their sales comprise, and more specifically what proportion of the higher chart positions?

Just to give an answer :)

 

I think around 15-20% of sales could be from the total sales of iTunes. Around 10-20 % of sales come still from the physicals, and from the downloads iTunes has a share of around 40-50% but I'm really not sure. If someone could confirm this. I'm interested in that too.

I think the iTunes figure looks about right - I'd read that they had a third of the market share of downloads at the start of the year, I'm sure that's grown a bit.

 

Using your figures above Ben (40-50% of the download market sales being iTunes, and 10-20% of the overall market being physicals), this puts the range that iTunes is accountable for in the overall market between 32%-45% :o).

I guess the deafening silence means no-one here really knows. :)

 

Does anyone know if their chart based on daily sales, or a longer period, then?

The iTunes chart is daily based. Covering Midnight - Midnight. This is updated hourly. If you wanted the whole days of the iTunes chart, you would have to check it out, after midnight.

 

Obviously Itunes covers the biggest proportion of Download Sales. This used to be followed by HMV Downloads..though this has probably changed. As the HMV download chart, get`s lots more oldies in it`s list(s).

interesting. wonder if there are any articles about this download market share thing. Kind of adds to my point of itunes not dictating the whole chart. It bugs me when people's response in threads is "but it's #1 on itunes!"= it must be no1 at weekend (obviously often but not always- the same song is no1 on lots of download charts but these are never referenced).

I imagine 7digital is quite big too. I've heard a number of people mention it, and i'm guessing there are more people with mp3 players than ipods total (though it may be the biggest individual company in terms of installed user base)

Edited October 2, 200816 yr by spicefunk

The iTunes chart is daily based. Covering Midnight - Midnight. This is updated hourly. If you wanted the whole days of the iTunes chart, you would have to check it out, after midnight.

 

Does that mean that if I look at the chart updated at 1 a.m., those will be the most downloaded tracks in just 1 hour, and downloads that happened before 12 p.m. are not included on it?

 

The iTunes chart is daily based. Covering Midnight - Midnight. This is updated hourly. If you wanted the whole days of the iTunes chart, you would have to check it out, after midnight.

 

Thanks, that's just the info I was looking for! :)

 

From what I know about 80-85% of the singles market is downloads - and around 70% of those downloads are from iTunes...

This would mean that 50-60% of single sales come from itunes?

Does that mean that if I look at the chart updated at 1 a.m., those will be the most downloaded tracks in just 1 hour, and downloads that happened before 12 p.m. are not included on it?

No, the update at 1am will include the sales from 1am the previous day to 1am of the current day. (I think)

Depends on whether iTunes is a rolling 24-hour chart.

 

Evidence would seem to suggest that it might be, but I still don't know for sure. It could be over a slightly longer period (e.g. 2 days), or a shorter period (e.g. 12 hours).

No, the update at 1am will include the sales from 1am the previous day to 1am of the current day. (I think)

 

Well, I think it makes sense, cause when a new song is released it usually climbs after each update on the first few hours, but after the first day it tends to start dropping again or stabilize.