@bob

You quoted this statistic "968,000 units sold by the top ten artists in a 5-year period." Then concluded "That's 193,600 units a year." Failing to realize very few of those records were sold in the first 3 years. Most of the vinyl has been sold in 2014-2015. From 0 to 1/2 a million units a year has made some major artists choose to release vinyl again,a record pressing manufacturer retool and manufacture a product that has been out of production for 30 years, and a iconic turntable manufacturer Technics (which had vanished from the earth) reappear on the market with their flagship product sl-1200.

I realize 2% seems like a small statistic. But that is 2% of "overall industry revenues" industry revenues include EVERYTHING and that means a lot more than just revenue from music sales. Performance revenue, licensing to movies, film, advertisement revenue. You cannot separate the Film industry from the music industry statistics when it comes to overall industry revenues. This is a significant source of revenue for artists. Possibly a shift in focus for young artists is to chase their dreams in a TV/Film placement rather than a record deal.

Other Music industry FADs???
Victrola,Records
Tube Amps, The Moving coil Loud Speaker Jensen/Magnavox
Talkies/music on film
Radio Music Entertainment Programing like Les Paul Mary Ford
TV Music Entertainment Programing
Stadium Music Concerts
Portable Pa Systems for Touring Musical groups Bob Heil
portable phonograph players
MultiTrack Recording Les Paul/AMPEX
National/Dobro electric lap guitar
Rickenbacker Guitar
Mosrite Guitar, Semie Moseley
Clyde Cooper Wah-Wah pedal
Fender solid body guitar
Les Paul Solid Body Guitar
Guitar Amps above 35 watts Ernie Ball, Dick Dale, Fender collaboration
Distortion Pedal Electro-Harmonix Big Muff
The cassette tape
Personal cassette recorders
Mix Tapes
Karaoke
Karaoke Clubs
American Karaoke Clubs in Japan
the Sony Walkman Cassette player
The transistor radio
the earphone (mono)
Electric Piano Fender Rhodes
8 track tape format, used in radio broadcasting for years before used for general music
FM Radio Stations
The CD
The Music Video/MTV
The synthesizer Bob Moog's, Synclavier, Oberheim
Hardware sequencing devices "Roger" LinnDrum,
Hardware Drum Samplers Thanks Roger and then Akai purchasing his technology.
MIDI - I remember the skeptics on this one
Computer Music Production
Music sequencing SW/Cakewalk Twelve Tone System/Voyetra/PG Music In the 80's We ARE ALL fads in the beginning.
The internet- Huge FAD will never catch on only for GEEKS
Pier to Pier music sharing / pirating music on a wholesale basis
MySpace/GeoCities/et all
Personal CD writers, make your own music CD
Electronic Drums
Music Retailers on line
Acoustic/Electric guitars. Thank you Barcus Berry
MP3 format - never catch on
the iPOD
iPhone
iPad
iTunes
earbuds
Bluetooth Speakers
Music Forums smile
YouTube

Everything starts out as a Fad, however, who wouldn't like a couple thousand shares of Apple Stock right now.

Edit added youtube

Last edited by dga; 06/09/16 07:16 AM.
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