Why Vinyl Records Are Coming Back

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Why vinyl records are coming back.

Sony was the biggest producer of vinyl records through the 1980s. Nielsen music reports that vinyl sales for 2017 reached their highest level since 1991 with around 14 million records sold in the united states. Why record albums are coming back. The past five or six years have seen the real boom with vinyl sales in the country and around the world absolutely thriving.

Cds out vinyl sees revival. You ve undoubtedly heard it before. In australia vinyl album purchases increased by 70 from 2012. As more and more stores drop cds they are bringing back vinyl records that many people had given up for dead.

Cds out vinyl sees continue reading vinyl revival. Record industry figures vinyl averaged 24 98 at retail in 2016 up more than 20 percent from a decade earlier adjusted for inflation. A couple of decades later vinyl is finally getting its revenge. 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.

After a 28 year hiatus sony announced that it was bringing back vinyl records. The company decided that the cumbersome pieces of plastic were rendered obsolete by the cassette player and cd. Record production has set a record and made a comeback in 2017. Sony brings back vinyl.

As more and more stores drop cds they are bringing back vinyl records that many people had given up for dead. Record sales have been on the rise since 93. The famed vinyl revival. Back on record the reasons behind vinyl s unlikely comeback april 17 2015 1 24am edt.

Here are five possible reasons why vinyl is making a comeback. 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. It s been reviving for quite a few years now to the point where we can just about call it revived. In 2014 record sales grew by more than 50 to hit more than a million.

Remember when compact discs better known as cds put the vinyl record industry out of business in the 1990s.