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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by scarface_74 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:48AM (#38394030)
The total revenue of CDs sold in 1999 (Peak CD) was $938 million.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/186772/album-shipments-i...

The best estimate for the number of adults that same year I could find was 191 million. Let’s say 200 million to include some teams.

That’s nowhere close to 10 to 20 CDs.

I can’t find a citation. But I’ve seen other places that people were spending $65 a year on music before streaming and iTunes

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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by ghaff on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:42PM (#38396667)
I believe those are US units not revenues. So depending on how you count relevant consumers that’s actually close to 10 CDs per year per person.

Which puts music purchases in the rough ballpark of streaming which is probably not coincidental.

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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by scarface_74 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @03:44PM (#38397311)
That’s about 5 CDs per adult then.
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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by ghaff on Thursday November 23, 2023 @05:11PM (#38398179)
Yes. But most music purchases were probably people from about their late teens through about their 30s. So the relevant adult population is probably quite a bit smaller.

Point is you’re looking at on the order of $100 per year plus or minus.

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