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Topic: 50000th 78!

  11th Apr 2016, 9:07 AM
fixbutte

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My first guess (before Redpunk and xiphophilos had posted their estimates) was five million.

We know that (RCA) Victor, the most prolific US label, had to introduce a new numbering system in 1942 because they had run out of five-digit numbers, so there were about 100,000 different 78 rpm Victors alone in the USA at that time, with around 15 years to follow. Based on that I assume that about 1 million different 78 rpm records were released in North America alone. Considering that Europe and Asia had a much bigger population in the first decades of the 20th century, I deduced my 5 million guess, somehow confirmed by xiphophilos' numbers.


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