Are Vinyls Making A Comeback

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Are vinyls making a comeback.

Vinyl records make a comeback sept. After all why go through the process of putting on a record when you can just press a button or let some streaming service do all the work for you. For some context the new er cd format has seen a drop in revenue by 48 percent for 2020. More than 16 million vinyl albums were sold in the u s.

Vinyl records have been slowly making a massive comeback over the last five years and we wanted to find out why. In 2018 producing vinyl s highest total revenue in 30 years according to the recording industry association of america riaa. In the age of digital everything the resurgence of vinyl almost feels like a glitch. Instead the bustling ecosystem of turntables and records is.

However an even older musical product is recovering. Why vinyl is making a comeback. After more than a decade of increasing american sales vinyl s comeback is no longer a quirky look at those hipsters novelty. In some territories vinyl is now more popular than it has been since the late 1980s though vinyl records still make up only a marginal percentage 6 of overall music sales.

Here are five possible reasons why vinyl is making a comeback. Nielsen music reports that vinyl sales for 2017 reached their highest level since 1991 with around 14 million records sold in the united states. However in 2007 vinyl sales made a sudden small increase starting its comeback and by the early 2010s it was growing at a very fast rate. The comeback of vinyl appears to have been chugging along for over a decade now.

Vinyl records see a comeback during music s digital age. Of course the 419 million in vinyl sales last year. Since 2005 vinyl sales have grown year on year with sales growing by 4 percent during the first half of 2020. 29 2015 10 02 pm utc.

A major technological characteristic cited in the comeback of vinyl is its distinctive lack of audio cleanness and perfection what fans call the warmth of the vinyl sound.