In 2023, the average check in stores of audio equipment and musical instruments in Russia increased by 30% compared to the previous year. In this respect writer Citing a study by Post Bank, RIA Novosti.
In 2023, Russians spent 19 million rubles on musical instruments and equipment, the average check for their purchase, according to bank statistics, was 5973 rubles.
In the same period, Russian spending on books reached 142 million rubles. On average, Russians left 488 rubles in a bookstore, and this figure has hardly changed over the past year.
The increase in spending on musical instruments in the bank was explained by the change in exchange rates and the increase in foreign product prices. The bank attributed the immutability of the check in the bookstore to a growing interest in electronic versions of publications.
During this year, suppliers of musical instruments to the Russian market have changed – now there are more Asian products in stores from China, Taiwan, India, Indonesia and Korea. knowledgeable The newspaper “Izvestia”. The founder of the Skifmusic.ru chain of music stores, Boris Kolesnikov, said that a year ago Asian brands occupied about 60% of the assortment, now this proportion is about 70-80%. Purchases are also made from Indonesia (11%), Russia (10%), USA (7%), Germany (5%) and other countries in total (11%), from Andrey Dubovoi, the music distributor’s technical director. “The instruments are Lutner,” he said. This includes parallel import deliveries of products from major world music brands leaving Russia – Fender, Gibson, Yamaha, Roland. Store owners recorded a nearly 50% increase in tool prices and purchasing activity in March last year. By the summer, prices stabilized, but the price of European products increased by 10-25%, for example, due to the growth of the euro.
Formerly socialbites.ca saidAbout the boom in music sales in Russia in 2020.