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The Music Industry Census 

Find 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 10-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. Information is available for the following product groups:

Acoustic Guitars Brass Instruments  Cabled Microphones Cables CD Players Digital DJ Controllers 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 Individual Drums Hardware Institutional Organs Karaoke Machines Keyboard Synthesizers

Keyboard Controllers Keyboard Synthesizers Multi-Effect Floor Processors Non-Powered Mixers Notation Software Plug In Software & Loops Portable Keyboards (Over $199) Portable Keyboards (Under $199) Power Amplifiers Powered Mixers Print Music Rack Mounted Samplers Rack-Mounted Processors Recording/Sequencing Software Rhythm Machines, Production Centers Sequencers Sound Cards, Computer Hardware Speaker Enclosures Special Effects Lighting Units Sticks & Mallets Stringed instruments Turntables Ukuleles Vertical Pianos Wireless Microphones Woodwind Instruments

Below is a sample of data (not actual) presented in this annual report. Similar data is available for all categories.

Total Guitar Sales
Year	Units	% Change	$ Retail	% Change	Avg. Price
2023	2,630,950	6.4%	$1,070,244,000	7.0%	$433
2022	2,472,700	-.3%	$1,000,676,130	11.4%	$403
2021	2,489,390	-.3%	$934,971,450	11.4%	$372
2020	2,496,185	5.0%	$839,000,000	2.2%	$353
2019	2,377,310	1.5%	$820,746,000	21.0%	$361
2018	2,341,551	20.5%	$903,261,000	-1.9%	$386
2017	1,942,625	11.4%	$921,057,000	.13%	$529
2016	1,742,498	5.6%	$922,280,000	-0.1%	$529
2015	1,648,595	23.3%	$923,522,000	21.2%	$560