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Discogs Analysis Shows Continued Vinyl, Cassette Growth

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Discogs has released their 2018 Mid-Year Marketplace Analysis & Database Highlights. The report emphasizes physical musical sales for both catalog and new releases, comparing them to broader industry stats from Neilson.

The Discogs Mid-Year Marketplace Analysis compares data from the Nielsen Music Mid-Year Report offering a unique comparison of Nielson's B2C and online music marketplace Discogs' data, which includes C2C re-sales.

Mid-Year Highlights:

  • Nielsen Music is reporting that physical album sales are down again for 2018 (-14.6%), while Discogs’ Marketplace sales are up, with a 10.2% increase in orders and 15.8% increase in revenue.
  • The most popular format sold so far in 2018 has been , with an increase in sales orders year-over-year (+14.97%). However,  have seen the most growth in sales orders (+35.19%).
  • Vinyl and CD submissions to the Discogs Database have both decreased slightly (-3.13% and-1.47%, respectively), while cassettes and other formats (a combination of digital releases and physical media) have increased (+8.96% and +4.50%, respectively) for a net increase in submissions (+12.32%).
  • The most popular genres sold in the Discogs Marketplace are , , and . However, both the  (+37.82%) and  (+35.07%) genres have seen a sizable year-over-year increase in sales.
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