Tuesday, 26 February 2013

HMV closures gets the public talking in latest Buzz survey

Our latest Harris Buzz report is out, the 25th edition. Click here to get your free copy of the full report.


Among all the things we tested, the thing that has got most people talking is the news that HMV stores are going into administration.

Nearly 9 in 10 of the GB general public told us they were aware of the news and nearly 3 in 5 people said they have discussed it with their friends or family.


This makes it one of the most buzziest things for discussion we've ever covered in our 25 series of Buzz reports stretching back to 2010.

Take a look at the all-time Discussion Buzz list (top 25):

Top 25 Discussion Buzz
% of GB public who have discussed...
London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony
75%
Jimmy Savile scandal
72%
Phone hacking scandal
66%
EURO 2012 final
61%
Skyfall movie
60%
HMV stores go into administration
58%
Andy Murray loses Wimbledon final
57%
Final Harry Potter film
55%
Stars at Jubilee concert
54%
2012 Olympic torch relay
54%
Steve Jobs dies
52%
The Voice new series
51%
Britain’s Got Talent new series
50%
Michael Jackson’s doctor guilty
48%
London 2012 tickets on sale
47%
Blockbuster administration
47%
BlackBerry outage
46%
The Hobbit movie
46%
Felix Baumgartner skydive
45%
Brits 2012
44%
Jimmy Carr tax story
43%
PS3 accounts hacked
43%
3D TV sets
42%
Fifty Shades of Grey
41%
Government email spying
41%

You'll also see that Blockbuster facing the same fate also gets into our Top 25 all-time list.

It's not surprising to see HMV get so high in our list. While so many of us have stopped using the High Street for our music, games and videos (the reason for its demise), it was really important for many of us a while back, before we migrated.

And there is a significant proportion of the population who haven't yet migrated to Amazon, Apple, Spotify et al who now have very few choices left in High Street to get their physical entertainment.

Yes, there are plenty of ways of getting entertainment, more than ever before, but if you're someone who isn't happy with shopping online and/or using digital services, then it's a sad day indeed to see such an important chain go under.

The whole list of things we covered in Buzz#25 is listed below. Click here to get the full, free report.

  • BlackBerry 10 smartphone revealed
  • Blockbuster stores go into administration
  • DMC: Devil May Cry video game
  • Facebook announce ‘Graph search’
  • HMV stores go into administration
  • JJ Abrams announced as Director of new Star Wars film
  • Lincoln movie
  • News International wins rights to show Premier League highlights on internet and mobile devices
  • Nokia targets Spotify with launch of premium Nokia Music+ service
  • Rapid rise of ‘Snapchat’ mobile app for sharing images or videos that disappear after a few seconds
  • Sony unveils Xperia Z, ‘thinnest’ tablet
  • Twitter launches ‘Vine’ micro-video sharing service
  • Zero Dark Thirty movie 

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