Check out the post Jeff Price (CEO of TuneCore) just put up (quote below).
“According to Nielsen (self defined as “…the world’s leading marketing and media information company.”) there were: “…106,000 new (music) releases in 2008”
In 2009, TuneCore released approximately 90,000 releases. This means, if their numbers hold true, almost every single new music release in 2009 was distributed via TuneCore.”
The following TuneCore artists sold over 250,000 copies….
Read the entire post. It’s a great read.