RIAA Statistics

I did some analysis of the RIAA's industry statistics to try and work out the possible impact of piracy on the industry. This was spurred from a discussion on Public Address which is theoretically about the nature of copyright but has branched off for the moment to focus on the music industry. I got accused of using data that's too old, so I went looking for some current stuff.

The RIAA provide their statistics as PDFs, some as linear documents and some as scans of paper - non of which can easily be copied across to a spreadsheet. Very helpful - not.

1997-2000	2000	2002	2003
2004	2005	2006	2007

There appears to be no sheet for 2001, but the figures are included in later sheets.

The totals are

	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Total Physical	7541.1	7834.2	9024	10046.6	12068	12320.3	12533.8	12236.8	13723.4	14651	14404	13931.6	12850.5	12224	12715.67	11734.8	10311.4	8461.8
Total Digital	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	183.5	503.7	878.1	1257.5
Total Digital and Physical	7541.1	7834.2	9024	10046.6	12068	12320.3	12533.8	12236.8	13723.4	14651	14404	13931.6	12850.5	12224	12899.17	12809.3	12169.5	10799.1

I have uploaded the figures in ODF and XLS formats. Let me know if you do anything useful with them :-)

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