Films released

Source: Screen Digest

Country	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
India/Hindi	?	?	?	?	800?
USA	323	302	310	291	318
Japan	249	270	282	281	293
France	173	170	208	204	200
Spain	63	70	96	102	122
Germany	70	88	94	107	116
Italy	66	93	86	106	114
Hong Kong	92	146	137	144	92
China	?	?	?	?	88
India/Tamil	?	?	?	?	83
UK	73	75	98	81	77
South Korea	42	?	58	65	77
Canada	?	?	56	71	71
Russian Federation	?	?	47	62	62
Switzerland	28	30	23	27	41
Belgium	7	11	29	33	34
Netherlands	?	?	34	28	29
Austria	22	19	19	12	23
Australia	19	21	22	27	22
Thailand	?	?	?	15	22
Taiwan	22	?	35	29	21
Greece	?	?	17	18	20
Portugal	?	?	11	9	15
Worldwide	?	?	?	?	3,000

Number of album titles released in 2002 in the USA alone: 33,443

Total number of album titles on sale in 2002: 320,646

Number of new albums that sold at least 100,000: 584
Number of albums that reached The Billboard 200: 993
Number that sold half million or more in 2002: 96
Number of album titles that sold more than 1 million that year: 65
0.29% of available titles accounted for 51.2% of all albums sold in 2002

(Source: Billboard)