Some
statistics from Dirty
Little Secrets of the Record Business, by Hank Bordowitz:
Over 60,000 albums were released in 2005
32 of those sold over a million copies
62 sold between 500,000 and 999,999 copies
103 sold between 250,000 and 499,999 copies
213 sold between 100,000 and 249,999 copies
Those 410 albums (less than 1 percent of new records released) accounted for 70 percent of new record sales and 27 percent of total record sales for that year.
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