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The Annual Census of the Music Industries

Industry Census: Detailed sales statistics on all music and sound equipment. 55 different categories, average unit prices, sales by price point, unit volume, retail and wholesale margins, year-to-date, and 6-year historical data. From grand pianos to power amplifiers and synthesizers, if it has to do with the creation of sound, our research department has detailed sales information from the U.S. market.

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Music Trades' authoritative market data on sales of all musical instruments, sound and publishing products covers 55 distinct categories of products. Below is a sample of data presented in this annual report. Similar information is available for the following product groups:

*Acoustic Guitars
*Brass Instruments,
*Cabled Microphones
*Cables
*Cassette Tape Multi-Track
*Controller Keyboards
*Cymbals
*Digital Pianos
*Digital Tape Multi-Track
*Drum Heads
*Drum Kits
*Drum Machines
*Educational Percussion
*Electric Guitars
*Electronic Pianos
*Electronic Player Pianos
*Fretted Instrument Strings
*General Accessories
*Grand Pianos
*Hand Percussion
*Hard-Disk Multi-Track
*Home Organs
*Individual Drums
*Hardware
*Institutional Organs
*Karaoke Machines
*Karaoke Software
*Keyboard Synthesizers
*Loudspeakers
*Mini-Disk Multi-Track
*Multi-Effect Floor Units
*Multi-Track
*Non-Powered Mixers
*Portable Keyboards
*Power Amplifiers
*Powered Mixers
*Print Music
*Rack-Mounted Processors
*Sampler/Sampling Keyboards
*Sequencers
*Single Unit Amplifiers
*Software
*Sound Modules
*Sticks & Mallets
*Stomp Boxes
*Stringed instruments
*Total Guitar Market
*Total MIDI Sales
*Total Percussion
*Total Piano Sales
*Total School Music
*Total Signal Processing
*Total Sound Reinforcement
*Vertical Pianos
*Wireless Microphones
*Woodwind Instruments

Here is a sample of data provided on 55 different categories of Music and Sound Products:

Total Guitar Sales 

Year Units % Change $ Retail Change Avg Price 
20062,991,260-9.6%$1,151,290,000 -4.1%$372
2005 3,302,670 0.2% $1,158,592,050 13.3%  $350 
2004 3,302,670 41.0% $1,022,861,000 13.3%  $309
2003 2,341,551 20.5% $903,261,000 -1.9% $386
2002 1,942,62511.4%$921,057,000  -.13% $529 
2001 1,742,498 5.6% $922,280,000  -0.1%$529 
2000 1,648,595  23.3% $923,522,000 21.2% $560 
1999 1,337,347 15.9%$762,185,000  9.6% $569
19981,153,915 5.8% $694,883,000 -2.2%$579 
1997 1,090,329  -.33% $710,769,000 -.63% $652 

Guitars
A Breakdown by Price Point and Product

Type Units 
Acoustics  
Under $100 390,028 
$101 to $200 410,030 
$201 to $350 110,008 
$351 to $500 40,003 
$501 to $1,000 40,003 
$1,001 to $1,500 10,001 
Over $1,501 20,001 
Total 1,490,260

Electrics 
Under $100 256,354
$101 to $200 561,537 
$201 to $350 195,317 
$351 to $600 97,659
$601 to $1,000 61,037 
$1,001 to $1,250 24,415 
$1251 to $1,60013,185
$1,601 to $2,00012,207
$2,001 to $3,000 11,229
Total 1,501,000

From grand pianos to power amplifiers and synthesizers, if it has to do with the creation of sound, our research department has detailed sales information for the U.S. market.

In Print Cost $25 - ORDER Now or fax 201-871-0455 or call 1-800-423-6530

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