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CD manufacturing: How many CDs shall we make?

ShareThe answer is this: think big but start small.
Baby steps. Remember, Dead stock is dead money so you have to be wise when it comes to these things.
If the act has no proven record of selling CDs, then get 300 CDS made otherwise known as CD duplication. Don’t go crazy and reproduce thousands right away. [...]

13 July 2010

James Hill

Record Sales and thinking back

Was searching around the big old world wide web and found this? Thought it might be interesting
I suppose after posting the Walmart piece it started me thinking of the good old days.

You could call it a companion to the top selling soundscan era album list lead by Metallica’s “Metallica”. Only this list consist of [...]

11 March 2010

James Hill

Independent Record Labels:Record labels and Walmart

Share[show_avatar email=james@unifiedmanufacturing.com]On my travels i saw this about Walmart – My questions to all of you are – what do you think this will do to the industry?
Wal-Mart Wants $10 CDs
- Biggest U.S. record retailer battles record labels over prices.
Wal-mart wants every CD you buy to cost less than ten bucks. And the nation’s largest [...]

11 March 2010

James Hill

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U.S. Record Industry Lost 24 Million Customers From 2007 to 2009

ShareThe NPD Group’s Russ Crupnick presented some insightful data on U.S. music purchases from 2007 to 2009. Here are the numbers:
24 million fewer people bought music in 2009 compared to 2007.
From 2007 to 2009, there were 33 million fewer CD buyers in the U.S. and 24 million fewer music buyers in total, a 21% [...]

6 March 2010

Chris Bauer

CD Baby sees 28% growth

ShareYeah baby, CD Baby sees expansion in 2008. 200,000 artists saw success with CD Baby last year, according to Tony Van Veen, CEO of Audio & Video Labs, the parent company of CD baby. Success is possible if you have the heart, it appears.
According to reports, CD Baby artists sold about 1.01 million CDs in [...]

21 January 2009

Chris Bauer

Distributor and label Creative Vibes packs it in

ShareAfter more than 15 years as an innovative Australian music company, Creative Vibes has called it quits. Their mission statement claims the company to be inspired purely by music, set out to make sure that music shops, music media and above all, music lovers got to hear and learn about the many brilliant, but non-mainstream [...]

4 December 2008

Chris Bauer

Take That sells 133,000 CDs in one day

ShareEngland’s Take That’s latest album, “The Circus”, rocked the music and CD world selling 133,000 copies on it’s first day. They beat out Coldplay’s new album for the biggest single day of the year.
Great news for us CD junkies!

4 December 2008

Chris Bauer

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Paul McCartney’s “The Fireman”

ShareMcCartney, along with producer Youth, released a new album with a distribution model that while relatively new, is becoming more commonplace. It is a former major label artist, self-releasing music over the Internet with the option of purchase either in digital form, or digital + traditional media.
McCartney’s website provides opportunities to purchase the album for [...]

26 November 2008

Chris Bauer