Internet facing CRM data is remarkably consistent across segments. You can expect 17% of the subscriber count to be either dupes or garbage accounts. That leaves around 66,500 true interest users at some point in time since the count began. I'd be happy with that figure as the true scale of the global market (i.e. people who actually pay).VitaminD wrote: they're all fake accounts like margaret thatcher..
The dark side? 4 - 5 times true market, say 300,000, like the man said. Seems about right to me.
But there are tons of other mags as well (EM, for example, and all the guitarist mags, and drummer, keyboard, bass player etc etc, and then magazines dedicated to certain genres, like mixmag, Hammer, etc ). I would assume that even though a lot of folks here are into computer music making they would also tend to read magazines related to their instrument or style. So I think the best indicator is actually how much software is sold, and how much is pirated, and how many people frequent the largest forums, and find some elegant formula, to be able to even get anywhere near the actual number of people who use sequencers.