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Originally posted by Eternium
No, it's a fact that less people are buying albums, as are less artists relying on the album medium, less artists releasing and catalogue sales are incredibly low. Your math is bad because you leave out every factor that stands against your point of view because it would lower the "multiplier" for your fave
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This can't be true. As an indicator: if you look at the number of wiki pages of albums per year
1999 albums (9 C, 2,070 P)
2000 albums (10 C, 2,143 P)
2010 albums (10 C, 2,849 P)
2011 albums (10 C, 2,543 P)
2012 albums (10 C, 2,277 P)
2013 albums (10 C, 1,959 P)
Not really a decrease
But if you have better info about the number fo albums released per year, I cannot find any concrete info about this
About the low catalogue sales, if album sales in general are incredibly low, obviously catalogue sales would be low too. Maybe global catalogue sales now have a lower % market share compared to back then, but there's no way to find that kind of info.
I like how you're saying I'm biased yet your post is full of subjective hunches that can't be proven
What's objective however is the total numbers of albums sold that year WW as reported by the IFPI. Comparing how much an album sold, compared to the total numbers of albums sold that year is a perfectly fair way if you want to compare how 'big' an album is.
You can call my comparison biased yet you have no problem using TEA to compare album sales from different times
1999: 3372M TEA
2010: 1298M TEA (nearly 3x less, a near 3x advantage for old albums)