Talk:List of largest recorded music markets

Ranking via Digital Sales
You should also put in the actual market share of digital sales and its ranking. I am assuming that is also included in the report. Ciscorucinski (talk) 05:33, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
 * You probably haven't looked at the tables very closely. The tables for 2011 and 2012 do include digital sales as well as physical sales.--Harout72 (talk) 15:01, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
 * You probably haven't looked at what I said very closely. Sorry, I know what I was looking at. I have asked for ranking of digital sales. There is the ranking for the total industry (physical and digital), and digital is growing. So it would be nice to see how countries rank via digital year-to-year. Actually it would be cool if they had rankings for total, physical, and digital...and you can just sort the table out from that -- Ciscorucinski (talk) 20:30, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
 * The ranking in the tables is based on IFPI annual reports (see the sources posted below each table), and they don't indicate the total retail value for Digital sales each market represents, we just have the percentages. And since we have specific percentages provided for each one of the sectors (Digital and Physical), readers can do the calculations manually. For example, in 2012, the total Retail Value for U.S. is $4,481.8 billion, the 58% of that belongs to digital sector, meaning $2.594.4 billion is coming from the Digital sales. The tables also have up/down sortable arrows in each column. By clicking on the arrows of the Digital column (for example), you bring the market with highest Digital sales to the top, and it will list the market with the smallest Digital sales at the bottom.--Harout72 (talk) 00:00, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I completely understand where you are coming from now; however, your last comment is completely wrong. The sorting of the list will only show the markets with the highest percentages of digital sales compared to that market's total sales - this is completely different from the digital sales compared to all the market's total sales. For example, if you were to look at the #1 US market and compare that to the #20 China market (digital), you can clearly see that China has the largest digital percentage of its own total sales. However, if the US had only a 2% digital market of its own total sales, then the US would still have a larger market for digital sales - $89.63M (2% US digital) vs $75.8M (82% China digital).


 * I understand that there the only way to do this is manually since the original data does not contain that number. Nonetheless, can that be added when new data is added to this page? OR can it be possible for Wikipedia to create a new type of table cell that allows calculations? I don't know how to suggest this. Maybe you do have an idea? It would be nice to have that data available since it is a simple calculation, and there are a lot of individual data entries to calculate for all markets in all years (where enough data is available).


 * I just re-read my previous comments, and I see why you thought I could just click on the column headers to sort out the data I wanted. I should have stated that I want to see how countries rank via digital *Sales* year-to-year. And, sorry, it seems like I was a little rude.Ciscorucinski (talk) 16:24, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

OK, now I understand what you're trying to say. Well, what you are suggesting simply needs to be done manually by readers, who are interested in determining as to which market would have a higher ranking based on Digital Sales. Because based on the information that we have coming to us from IFPI Annual Report, we cannot create an additional table stating The ranking is based on Digital Sales each market generates based on its total Retail Value.:

The creation of such table without our available sources directly supporting it, would constitute WP:Original research.--Harout72 (talk) 00:47, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Question on tables
I've noticed that these contain columns labeled as "Physical", "Digital", "Performance Rights", and "Synchronization". Given how streaming has become an increasingly large part of music consumption over the past few years, I'm not sure whether this is included within "Digital" totals or perhaps isn't counted here at all. If it's left out, then I'd also like to know why. Can someone please provide some clarification? Snuggums (talk / edits) 22:51, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
 * The tables for the recent years should include the steaming, although not specified in sources. All tables are based on what the sources contain. In other words, nothing is added or altered, everything you see on the tables, that's the way they appear on the tables in the sources. You can find the sources immediately below the tables.--Harout72 (talk) 00:27, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I did notice the references, but since they're in Japanese and I can't read/speak that language, I couldn't make out any inference from them on streams. Snuggums (talk / edits) 00:44, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

IFPI 2010 listed here could be uncorrected
The official IFPI report for 2010 is different. Read here: http://www.snepmusique.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/rin2010.pdf (page 16)

I don’t know if there are also differences for the other years. Maybe it’s better to use the official report. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.181.192.44 (talk) 17:08, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
 * They are both IFPI reports, one provided by the French SNEP, the other by Japan's RIAJ. Not sure why there is difference.--Harout72 (talk) 17:38, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

Name change without discussion
This should have been discussed first. The tables of earlier years do not agree with the name change, perhaps the name change would be suitable if all of the tables had top 20 markets only, but such isn't the case.--Harout72 (talk) 15:46, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

Album totals only include CD sales...
At least in some cases, for example the 2010 US total is 226 million while it should be 359 million (shipments) or 326 million (retail). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.22.30.4 (talk) 04:30, 14 April 2020 (UTC)