Vinyl Sales Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 21 June 2021

I was expecting more this week, if I’m honest. With anecdotes of long lines and busy stores for Record Store

SoundScan–the record sales-counting tool that only registers a record as sold once its barcode is scanned at the cash–has been

On a worldwide basis, vinyl has not sold this well since 1990. Here are the most in-demand records today. 1.

Adele’s 25 album was released on November 20, 2015, meaning it was in the marketplace for just 41 days. During

While Taylor Swift’s 1989 may be the biggest selling vinyl record so far this year in the US (who the

…Taylor Swift? Yep. Her 1989 album sold 34,000 copies on vinyl, more than any other release current or gold. Here’s

VVN Music has published some sales rankings of vinyl in the UK. Here are the Top 10 selling vinyl singles

That’s it for 2014. And it’s another down year for music sales on both sides of the border, although it

Very well, thanks for asking. The last week featured the highest sales total for vinyl in the UK since 1997.

I’ve posted something like this before, but it’s worth posting again. (Via Digital Music News)

A very good question posed by The Atlantic. The equation facing the music business is now well understood: Sales of

Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
Andrew Dick
Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver
The Business of Radio – Elliott Hurst in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 034 June 21, 2021
The commercialization of streaming audio is not a new phenomenon. Going back 100 years, it was simply known by another name, broadcasting. With the launch, rise and now transition to digital and apps, the business models of audio-preneurs have generally been the same, mostly because of the challenge of measurement, a problem audio’s cousin television […]
Mark Silver