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Old 16-05-2012, 20:25
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Following todays midweeks, The Saturdays have charted at 2 when they have only been charting around 6/7 on itunes all week, it made me think how much of the chart is made up from itunes downloads.
Ive heard that around 99% of singles are downloaded nowadays but how much of that is from Itunes, amazon, play.com, hmv etc

Does anyone know the percentage breakup?
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Old 16-05-2012, 20:26
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Following todays midweeks, The Saturdays have charted at 2 when there have only been charting around 6/7 on itunes all week, it made me think how much of the chart is made up from itunes downloads.
Ive heard that around 99% of singles are downloaded nowadays but how much of that is from Itunes, amazon, play.com, hmv.

Does anyone know the percentage breakup?
It's because they were high on pre-orders.

They will slip during the next few days as the sales will stop being so frontloaded.
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Old 16-05-2012, 20:56
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It's because they were high on pre-orders.

They will slip during the next few days as the sales will stop being so frontloaded.
You're right, although that's not answering his question... But not just The Saturdays, but most new releases usually chart higher in the official charts than you'd expect looking at iTunes, because of pre-orders and EPs. Also The Saturdays have sold a lot of physical copies the past few days, and iTunes (or any download site) doesn't reflect those.

But now to answer the actual question. I don't think know how much of the market iTunes accounts for (not sure if the figures have ever been made public), but I'd guess at something like 60%.
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Old 17-05-2012, 00:53
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Where do you collect sales from?

The simple answer is all significant retailers. These retailers span independent stores, high street chains, supermarkets, internet mail order and download services. As a result, we estimate that we capture around 99% of all singles sold, 98% of all albums and over 90% of all videos/DVDs.
http://www.officialcharts.com/faqs/
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