Monday 26 March 2012

Public reception

When the LP was alien in 1948, the 78 was the accepted architecture for phonograph records. By 1952, 78s accounted for hardly added than bisected of the units awash in the United States, and just beneath bisected of the dollar sales. The 45, aggressive against the individual song, accounted for 30.2% of assemblage sales and 26.5% of dollar sales. The LP represented 16.7% of assemblage sales and 26.2% of dollar sales.15



Ten years afterwards their introduction, the allotment of assemblage sales for LPs in the U.S. was 24.4%, and of dollar sales 58%. Most of the butt was taken up by the 45; 78s accounted for alone 2.1% of assemblage sales and 1.2% of dollar sales.7

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