Is Vinyl Records Coming Back

As more and more stores drop cds they are bringing back vinyl records that many people had given up for dead.

Is vinyl records coming back. The company decided that the cumbersome pieces of plastic were rendered obsolete by the cassette player and cd. The past five or six years have seen the real boom with vinyl sales in the country and around the world absolutely thriving. After a 28 year hiatus sony announced that it was bringing back vinyl records. How people listen to music has definitely changed thanks to the popularity of streaming music.

But there s something about the 12 inch glossy black disc that keeps people coming back for more. The vinyl revival is the renewed interest and increased sales of vinyl records or gramophone records that has been taking place in the western world since about 2007. According to the latest u s. Sony brings back vinyl.

A couple of decades later vinyl is finally getting its revenge. Sony was the biggest producer of vinyl records through the 1980s. Last year more than 4 million chart eligible lps were sold in the uk alone a remarkable increase from the 3 2 million records sold in 2016 and this is expected to rise to around 4 5 million in 2019. As more and more stores drop cds they are bringing back vinyl records that many people had given up for dead.

The analogue format made of polyvinyl chloride had been the main vehicle for the commercial distribution of pop music from the 1950s until the 1980s and 1990s when they were largely replaced by the compact disc cd. Record industry figures vinyl averaged 24 98 at retail in 2016 up more than 20 percent from a decade earlier adjusted for inflation. Cds out vinyl sees revival. That should come as no surprise since collecting records is a means for people who grew up with vinyl to reconnect with their youth.

Cds out vinyl sees continue reading vinyl revival. Record production has set a record and made a comeback in 2017. Though many vinyl collectors are known. Why record albums are coming back.

The new player will launch on record store day saturday april 13 with four collectable singles each from third man and punk stalwarts epitaph records. What s more musicwatch reports that 27 percent of vinyl buyers are 36 or older. Record sales have been on the rise since 93. In australia vinyl album purchases increased by 70 from 2012 to 2013 and the national sales on the whole doubled.