Why Vinyl Records Are Coming Back

As more and more stores drop cds they are bringing back vinyl records that many people had given up for dead.

Why vinyl records are coming back.

After a 28 year hiatus sony announced that it was bringing back vinyl records. Record industry figures vinyl averaged 24 98 at retail in 2016 up more than 20 percent from a decade earlier adjusted for inflation. Record production has set a record and made a comeback in 2017. 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.

You ve undoubtedly heard it before. Here are five possible reasons why vinyl is making a comeback. Record sales have been on the rise since 93. Nielsen music reports that vinyl sales for 2017 reached their highest level since 1991 with around 14 million records sold in the united states.

Why record albums are coming back. Back on record the reasons behind vinyl s unlikely comeback april 17 2015 1 24am edt. The famed vinyl revival. Over the past few years analog goods including physical books board games and of course vinyl records have experienced a surprising resurgence despite the fact that these technologies are.

Vinyl has bucked the trend. Cds out vinyl sees revival. The past five or six years have seen the real boom with vinyl sales in the country and around the world absolutely thriving. According to the latest u s.

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. A couple of decades later vinyl is finally getting its revenge. Why record albums are coming back. In 2014 record sales grew by more than 50 to hit more than a million.

Remember when compact discs better known as cds put the vinyl record industry out of business in the 1990s. Sony brings back vinyl. Sony was the biggest producer of vinyl records through the 1980s. As more and more stores drop cds they are bringing back vinyl records that many people had given up for dead.

The company decided that the cumbersome pieces of plastic were rendered obsolete by the cassette player and cd.