Are Vinyls Making A Comeback

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Are vinyls making a comeback.

The comeback of vinyl appears to have been chugging along for over a decade now. Since 2005 vinyl sales have grown year on year with sales growing by 4 percent during the first half of 2020. Vinyl records see a comeback during music s digital age. In some territories vinyl is now more popular than it has been since the late 1980s though vinyl records still make up only a marginal percentage 6 of overall music sales.

29 2015 10 02 pm utc. Vinyl records have been slowly making a massive comeback over the last five years and we wanted to find out why. Over the past few years analog goods including physical books board games and of course vinyl records have experienced a surprising resurgence despite the fact that these technologies are. In the age of digital everything the resurgence of vinyl almost feels like a glitch.

In 2018 producing vinyl s highest total revenue in 30 years according to the recording industry association of america riaa. After all why go through the process of putting on a record when you can just press a button or let some streaming service do all the work for you. Why vinyl is making a comeback. Here are five possible reasons why vinyl is making a comeback.

For some context the new er cd format has seen a drop in revenue by 48 percent for 2020. After more than a decade of increasing american sales vinyl s comeback is no longer a quirky look at those hipsters novelty. Jacob osborn 4 jul 2018. However an even older musical product is recovering.

More than 16 million vinyl albums were sold in the u s. After nearly vanishing from store shelves and most households vinyl records are making a strong comeback. Awesome mix tape 2 was released after guardians of the galaxy came out making it one of the first commercially successful audio cassette tapes to be put out in years. However in 2007 vinyl sales made a sudden small increase starting its comeback and by the early 2010s it was growing at a very fast rate.

Of course the 419 million in vinyl sales last year.