More on Music Industry Stats and Relevance

Just after I finished posting Are Music Industry Stats Relevant to You? I read a post over at Bandcamp’s blog called RSS and the Greatly Exaggerated Rumors of the Album’s Death. Go read it right now. Case in point.

On Bandcamp, albums outsell tracks 2 to 1. Put another way, 66% of paid downloads on Bandcamp are for albums, compared to only about 6% for the greater Nielsen-reporting world.

And, speaking to the skewing effects of pop-culture on the music business:

Maybe it’s because the independent artists that dominate Bandcamp have a different kind of fan than Hannah Montana (whose seminal work, Hannah Montana 3 (Music from the TV Show) [Deluxe Edition], is currently featured on iTunes’ front page).

Again, beware the authorities who cite macro-level statistics to justify their latest vision for the future of the business. Consider what they say, and then observe what is actually happening around you. For me at least, the real music business lies more or less under-the-radar, where the majority of us live.