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In Reply to: Top DVD-As outselling CD counterparts on Amazon.de posted by Eric LeRouge on May 03, 2003 at 07:27:03:
Still in a "low-tech" presentation (sorry Metralla), here's the top 25 DVD-Audio on Amazon.com ranked by ASR, as of 4 May 2003.I think this deserves an update, because my post on Amazon.de was incomplete. In my previous post above, I indicated that the average ASRs were much lower on Amazon.com than on Amazon.de. This is true, but only for pop/rock releases. When I investigated a little further, the major difference on the US website is that there are 7 classical releases within the top 25 DVD-Audio titles.
So if you inlude classical releases, the Top 25 DVD-Audio titles also outsell their CD counterpart on Amazon.com
Even if you exclude classical releases that do not have a CD counterpart, the average ASR of the top DVD-Audio titles is still better than the average ASR of the CD counterparts (although by a smaller margin)
Note: I re-checked the ASRs on Amazon.de, and if you include classical titles in the sample, only one title makes it to the Top 25 (Beethoven Barenboïm Symph 9, at the 23rd position), all the other classical titles floating in the lower ranks. So the sales of DVD-Audio on the German website reflect a more pop/rock audience, while sales on the US website reflect a more balanced audience, with both pop/rock and classical.
Rank Artist / Title DVD-A CD
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1. Yes / Fragile 976 6,159
2. ELP / Brain Salad Surgery 1,099 7,546
3. Immersion DVD-Audio 1,292 (na)
4. Fleetwood Mac / Say You Will 1,950 6
5. Fleetwood Mac / Rumours 2,016 610
6. Metallica / Metallica 3,547 475
7. Beethoven / Barenboim Simph 9 4,177 (na)
8. Blue Man Group / Audio 4,328 637
9. Deep Purple / Machine Head 5,544 3,644
10. Fourplay / Fourplay 5,592 23,298
11. Doors / LA Woman 6,044 8,346
12. Faith Hill: / Cry 6,140 338
13. Dvorak / Harnoncourt / Simph 9 6,369 50,147
14. Mahler / Zubin Mehta / Symph 2 6,943 94,787
15. Eagles / Hotel California 7,454 1,196
16. Bach / Koopman / Organ Spectacular 7,746 (na)
17. REM / Automatic 8,146 912
18. The Nightfly 8,786 2,937
19. Beethoven / Barenboim Simph 1+2 8,860 (na)
20. Cooder Ry / Buena Vista Social Club 9,673 177
21. Queen / NIght at the Opera 9,675 2,395
22. Beethoven / Barenboim Simph 7+8 10,246 (na)
23. Foreigner / Foreigner 10,484 17,718
24. Tchaikowski / 1812 Ouverture 11,055 (na)
25. Parsons / I Robot 11,105 4,104
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Average (Top 25) 6,370 11,865
Average (top 50) 14,043 8,114
Average (79 refs) 82,624 11,180
Close followers
Rank Artist / Title DVD-A CD
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26. Coltrane / Blue Train 11,917 3,759
27. Steely Dan / 2 Against Nature 12,745 6,979
28. Elvis / #1 Greatest Hits 13,977 203
29. Beethoven / Barenboim Simph 3 14,131 (na)
30. Merchant N / Tigerlily 14,713 1,897
Source: Amazon.com website
I hope this is useful to someoneBest
Eric
Follow Ups:
Happy to see that using the PRE tag enables you to make far more readable layouts. What you have done is quite fine and you can now concentrate on getting the data - which is the way it should be. I'm all froth and bubble.
Regards,
Metralla
and the Billboard will look cheap in comparison.: )
Thanks again
Hey Eric, Excellent work. At least it shows that people are interested in purchasing the high-rez material. I have to wonder if it is simply representative of the fact that finding high-rez is difficult unless you go on-line. Picking up CDs at the local shop is very easy.The new Fleetwood Mac is likely one of the best recordings to follow as it is a new release in both CD and DVD-A with a loyal fan base. It would be interesting it see if the proportions that are sold in high-rez are larger then those of Rumours. On-line this seems to be true.
Hi Rod,
I don't think these figures reflect what happens in the brick & mortar channels at this point.To be sure, this is not a representative sample, but merely an indication of the fact that DVD-A editions can outsell CD editions.. even if it's in a very specialized distribution channel. I was also interested to see that the US market is interested in classical titles.. and that the German market in pop/rock (I would have thought the opposite).
I'll be honest, the fact that Yes / Fragile appears to be #1 on Amazon.com, and Queen NATO #1 on Amazon.de is a bit disappointing to me, I would have hoped that a more recent title leads in sales. But Warner's strategy to re-issue old classics seems to work : )
I guess my main conclusion would be: if you have a small or medium sized record company with a DVD-A product line, it's probably easier to concentrate your marketing effort on trying to get your products positionned on Amazon (and in particular Amazon.de), than through a brick & mortar retail network (with a lot less inventory). Easier said than done, I guess..
Of course, all the audiophile websites are also a natural target.
Perhaps it would be interesting in the future to do this 'snapshot ' analysis on a regular basis (say, every two or three months), and see what happens.
Best
Eric
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