Post by Cornan September 1, 2008 (1 of 6)
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This is the third time I've "crunched the numbers" provided by SA-CD.NET (thanks as always). You can see my previous postings at /showthread/27548/27548/y#27548 and /showthread/24873/24966/y#24966.
With three data points per label I can do a few more things with the numbers. First, here is information on the MOST NEW RELEASES by label since 11/21/07 (the first time I took a snapshot of SA-CD.NET data). This comes with the usual understanding that "label" is not the same as the number of companies making SACDs:
33 - Exton (169 total)
24 - Three Blind Mice (24 total)
19 - BIS (104 total)
16 - Canyon Classics (28 total)
16 - PentaTone Classics (144 total)
15 - SMEJ (48 total)
14 - New Classical Adventure (44 total)
13 - Channel Classics (93 total)
13 - Linn Records (89 total)
12 - Praga Digitals (64 total)
12 - Sony BMG (32 total)
10 - Triton (24 total)
10 - 4AD (10 total)
9 - Avex-classics (70 total)
9 - WEA Japan (9 total)
8 - MDG (48 total)
8 - CPO (40 total)
8 - Oehms Classics (28 total)
7 - Ars Produktion (36 total)
7 - Pony Canyon (36 total)
7 - LSO Live (31 total)
6 - Harmonia Mundi (71 total)
6 - Fontec (28 total)
6 - Chandos (49 total)
6 - Virgin (32 total)
6 - Arts Music (33 total)
6 - 2L (25 total)
5 - Coviello Classics (28 total)
5 - Neos (12 total)
5 - Denon (24 total)
5 - Aliud (20 total)
5 - Aeolus (19 total)
5 - Telarc (163 total)
5 - Ondine (18 total)
5 - RCO live (17 total)
Sadly, the rate of releases has inched downwards from 1.97 per day to 1.58 per day. This is no doubt largely due to some of the labels with the most total releases going "quiet" during the last nine months. (And of course, if there is any seasonality to SACD releases my odd choice of sampling dates could have an effect as well). Here is a list of the biggest labels that have slowed the most since 11/21/07:
Telarc (163 total / 5 new), Columbia (142 total / zero new), Membran (113 total / 1 new), Capriccio (97 total / zero new), Sony Classical (90 total / zero new), Chesky (73 total / 4 new), SMJI (69 total / zero new), Mercury/Polydor (64 total / zero new), Living Stereo (54 total / zero new), Deutsche Grammophon (54 total / zero new), Epic (52 total / zero new), Universal (Japan) (51 total / zero new), Sony Records (50 total / zero new), SME Records (47 total / zero new), Mobile Fidelity (47 total / 3 new), Sony Classical (Japan) (45 total / 3 new), Eighty Eights (44 total / zero new), Fantasy (43 total / zero new), Audite (43 total / 4 new), GTmusic (40 total / 3 new), Fonè (40 total / 2 new), Concord Records (37 total / zero new), Songlines (36 total / 2 new), Naxos (36 total / zero new), Hyperion (35 total / 1 new)
It seems that a broad spectrum of "smaller" labels are making up much of the deficit caused by the big labels.
Let me turn now to the "newer" labels (again, as referenced to 11/21/07). Let's all give these labels the most support we can:
24 - Three Blind Mice (first noted 9/1/2008)
10 - 4AD (first noted 9/1/2008)
9 - WEA Japan (first noted 3/15/2008)
4 - Phoenix Edition (first noted 9/1/2008)
2 - Stereo Sound (first noted 9/1/2008)
2 - Fuga (first noted 3/15/2008)
2 - Beckmann (first noted 3/15/2008)
1 - Telos (first noted 9/1/2008)
1 - Chrom Records (first noted 9/1/2008)
1 - Fuoco (first noted 9/1/2008)
1 - Intuition (first noted 9/1/2008)
1 - King Records (first noted 9/1/2008)
1 - Marsyas (first noted 9/1/2008)
1 - Musica Rediviva (first noted 9/1/2008)
1 - Reference Recordings (first noted 9/1/2008)
1 - Tahra (first noted 9/1/2008)
1 - Nobel Records (first noted 3/15/2008)
1 - Aurora Records (first noted 3/15/2008)
1 - Cambria Music (first noted 3/15/2008)
1 - Creop Muse (first noted 3/15/2008)
1 - Densité 21 (first noted 3/15/2008)
1 - Ensemble Modern (first noted 3/15/2008)
1 - Hunter Records (first noted 3/15/2008)
1 - Sony BMG (Hong Kong) (first noted 9/1/2008)
0 - Sanctuary (first noted 9/1/2008)
And finally, here are the labels with the most total releases (some of which have no new releases in quite a while as I noted above):
169 - Exton (33 since 11/21/07)
163 - Telarc (5 since 11/21/07)
144 - PentaTone Classics (16 since 11/21/07)
142 - Columbia (none since 11/21/07)
113 - Membran (1 since 11/21/07)
104 - BIS (19 since 11/21/07)
97 - Capriccio (none since 11/21/07)
93 - Channel Classics (13 since 11/21/07)
90 - Sony Classical (none since 11/21/07)
89 - Linn Records (13 since 11/21/07)
73 - Chesky (4 since 11/21/07)
71 - Harmonia Mundi (6 since 11/21/07)
70 - Avex-classics (9 since 11/21/07)
69 - SMJI (none since 11/21/07)
64 - Praga Digitals (12 since 11/21/07)
64 - Mercury/Polydor (none since 11/21/07)
54 - Living Stereo (none since 11/21/07)
54 - Deutsche Grammophon (none since 11/21/07)
52 - Epic (none since 11/21/07)
51 - Universal (Japan) (none since 11/21/07)
50 - Sony Records (none since 11/21/07)
49 - Chandos (6 since 11/21/07)
48 - SMEJ (15 since 11/21/07)
48 - MDG (8 since 11/21/07)
47 - Mobile Fidelity (3 since 11/21/07)
47 - SME Records (none since 11/21/07)
Happy shopping.
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Post by Beagle September 3, 2008 (2 of 6)
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Cornan said: Sadly, the rate of releases has inched downwards from 1.97 per day to 1.58 per day...
Given that an SACD costs circa US$30 with shipping etc included, 365 days of purchases would cost $17,301.00 instead of $32,521.50. Given the rising costs of energy, that might be taken as welcome news. I continue to regard SACD as the finest, most worthwhile musical technology to date, and with at least as much of a future in front of it as it has history behind it -- and with more musical offerings than I can afford.
With Kronos Quartet appearing on SACD and the 3rd volume of Bartók quartets due next month, I for one will die happy (if I can afford the electricity).
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Post by soundboy September 3, 2008 (3 of 6)
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Beagle said:
Given that an SACD costs circa US$30 with shipping etc included, 365 days of purchases would cost $17,301.00 instead of $32,521.50.
Why do you have to mention that? I now feel depressed either way ;)
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Post by Claude September 3, 2008 (4 of 6)
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Beagle said:
and with more musical offerings than I can afford.
... thanks to the Exton "Direct Cut" SACDs
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Post by trntbl September 5, 2008 (5 of 6)
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Interesting numbers. My quick check on MDT webpage showed that their list of 50 most popular recordings during august contained 5 SACDs. 10%, Not bad.
kristian
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Post by Peter September 5, 2008 (6 of 6)
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trntbl said:
Interesting numbers. My quick check on MDT webpage showed that their list of 50 most popular recordings during august contained 5 SACDs. 10%, Not bad.
kristian
I'd noticed that, too. MDT is one of several UK sellers who make a point of marketing SACDs efficiently.
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