Why Is Vinyl Popular

Vinyl is huge across all age groups jim johnson a sales and marketing employee for music distributor alliance entertainment in florida told the pitt news.

Why is vinyl popular.

But with popular events like record store day and many younger hip bands releasing their music on records it has really allowed vinyl to take off once again. Nielsen music reports that vinyl sales for 2017 reached their highest level since 1991 with around 14 million records sold in the united states. Most vinyl albums are black but they don t have to be pigmented materials can make albums red blue pink white orange or practically any other color. She currently writes for soundstage direct her go to place for all turntables and vinyl equipment including vpi turntables.

Vinyl didn t die when jimi hendrix did. 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. Let s take a trip to a record store and i ll tell you the four reasons why 12 vinyl records are better than digital mp3. Here are five possible reasons why vinyl is making a comeback.

Another point in vinyl s favor. 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.