Why Are Vinyl Records Popular Again

Even as physical cd sales decline people are buying more vinyl than they have in decades.

Why are vinyl records popular again. Another point in vinyl s favor. Vinyl records are popular again and here s how they re made. Dancing and singing and squealing just being in love with our vinyl records again in fact in 2019 vinyl is poised to outsell cds for the first time since 1986 according to riaa. A vinyl record is played outside a store during record store day in paris in 2015.

Vinyl records have become more popular over the last decade. Most vinyl albums are black but they don t have to be pigmented materials can make albums red blue pink white orange or practically any other color. 6 reasons why vinyl is popular again. I ve loved vinyl for as long as i can remember but i never knew exactly how records were made.

Vinyl records are so popular that sony plans to make them again. 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. Vinyl s revival has made a significant mark in sales figures. Nearly 6 million units sold in just in 2013.

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. 26 of all physical albums sold in 2019 in u s. Seems like we ve all become like her in the last decade.