Is Vinyl Records Coming Back

That should come as no surprise since collecting records is a means for people who grew up with vinyl to reconnect with their youth.

Is vinyl records coming back.

As more and more stores drop cds they are bringing back vinyl records that many people had given up for dead. According to the latest u s. Record production has set a record and made a comeback in 2017. 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.

The new player will launch on record store day saturday april 13 with four collectable singles each from third man and punk stalwarts epitaph records. Though many vinyl collectors are known. But there s something about the 12 inch glossy black disc that keeps people coming back for more. Record sales have been on the rise since 93.

Why record albums are coming back. Why record albums are coming back. In australia vinyl album purchases increased by 70 from 2012 to 2013 and the national sales on the whole doubled. Record industry figures vinyl averaged 24 98 at retail in 2016 up more than 20 percent from a decade earlier adjusted for inflation.

What s more musicwatch reports that 27 percent of vinyl buyers are 36 or older. A couple of decades later vinyl is finally getting its revenge. Sony was the biggest producer of vinyl records through the 1980s. Cds out vinyl sees continue reading vinyl revival.

How people listen to music has definitely changed thanks to the popularity of streaming music. Remember when compact discs better known as cds put the vinyl record industry out of business in the 1990s. Cds out vinyl sees revival. After a 28 year hiatus sony announced that it was bringing back vinyl records.

The past five or six years have seen the real boom with vinyl sales in the country and around the world absolutely thriving. Sony brings back vinyl. The company decided that the cumbersome pieces of plastic were rendered obsolete by the cassette player and cd. The vinyl revival is the renewed interest and increased sales of vinyl records or gramophone records that has been taking place in the western world since about 2007.