Vinyl’s Not Dead Yet. In Fact, It’s Feeling Much, Much Better.
Click on the graph for a better viewRemember the late 90s when everyone (including me, sadly) was predicting that vinyl was pretty much dead. “Buy a turntable before the end of the year,” I told my radio audience, “because chances are they won’t be making them anymore soon!”
Duh. Don’t I look like a turd now.
But in my defense, things looked really grim for vinyl between 1995 and 2005. But then a weird thing happened. Sales started to go up. Not by much, but enough.
Today, Billboard released their year-end sales numbers and buried in the stats is a note that vinyl sales are up for the sixth straight year.
But let’s not get too excited. Even though vinyl is up 39.3% over 2010, that translates into a total of 3,900,000 units. Of all albums. Adele has sold nearly 6 million CDs on her own. Still, it’s nice for us vinyl junkies, innit?
Well, the record industry did just take away records one day. They never really let the market decide in North America. from what I have read, vinyl was always available in Europe, and always sold OK,
Singles weren't cut at the knees in Europe like they were in North America. And because DJ culture/rave culture was so strongly rooted in Europe, vinyl hung on a bit better than on this side of the Atlantic.
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