CDs pull ahead of vinyl in the 2024 sales race
As a fan of vinyl, I eagerly follow its fortunes via the weekly Luminate sales and streaming report. It’s not that I want CDs to completely crater, but it’s fun to see vinyl
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Compact Discs
FIGHT! What sounds better, CDs or vinyl?
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Does vinyl really sound better than a compact disc? This is a debate that is not only very scientific but also very emotional. To explain this
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Vinyl: Still king in Canada so far in 2024
When the Luminate sales and streaming data comes out every week, the first numbers I look at are for vinyl. Despite unconscionably high prices, sales are going nuts so far in 2024. Comparing
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Update: Vinyl continues to have a good year in Canada.
For people who still insist that the return to vinyl is a fad–albeit a fad that’s been getting bigger every year since 2008–really need to look at the weekly Luminate music consumption stats.
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Vinyl continues to out-sell and out-gross CDs in Canada
Luminate, the company that monitors everything about how we consume music, reports this week that vinyl is still on a tear in Canada. Without counting the sales of used records and any transactions
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Canadian vinyl sales are pulling away from CDs.
The data from this week’s Luminate report on Canadian music consumption offers a fascinating look at how vinyl is not only generating more revenue that CDs but are outselling them. For the week
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How much longer can the vinyl boom last? There are questions.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] I know exactly how many single compact discs I bought this year: Zero. None. The only new CDs to enter my collection came as
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Random music news for Monday, March 13, 2023
If you use the word “very” too much, this website will help. I can see it being very useful instrumental in writing. Also very interesting engrossing is music news for March 13, 2023.
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 975: More vinyl stories
At the dawn of the 21st century, vinyl was dead, dead, dead. We were all going digital and the general consensus was that we were going digital so there was no point in
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Vinyl has another moment in 2022
Despite supply chain issues, vinyl had another good year in 2022, at least in terms of revenue. While figures aren’t in for Canada and the US yet, the UK reports that for the
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: Things you might not realize about streaming
[We’re taking a break over the holidays. New shows start the first weekend in January. – AC] Once upon a time, music was sold to us on pieces of plastic. We had to
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