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Yeah, if you read Hit Men by Fredric Dannen, you can learn about how they used to skew the numbers for record sales by counting every copy that shipped, regardl
by nihonde 10y ago
Yeah, if you read Hit Men by Fredric Dannen, you can learn about how they used to skew the numbers for record sales by counting every copy that shipped, regardless of whether it was sold or returned.
And today, we are told that 1,500 streaming plays equals an album sale, which is presumably because they tell us that royalties are something like $0.0017 per play and the artist's cut should be around $2.25 per album sale? Who knows.
- 6stringmerc 10y agoNot so much the "Who knows" bit at the end because I think your numbers are exactly right on the Billboard/RIAA counting process. It was recently revised. Having worked in a big box US media retailer I can still recall putting 27 DVDs on the shelf of the Johnny Knoxville flop "The Ringer" and taking the same 27 DVDs off the rack later to ship...somewhere else. A lot of 'eat these and we will cut you a better deal on the ones you REALLY want' type deals were made, I'm pretty sure - no hard evidence, but fits the industry profile.