Why Vinyl Records Are Coming Back

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.

Why vinyl records are coming back. You ve undoubtedly heard it before. Record industry figures vinyl averaged 24 98 at retail in 2016 up more than 20 percent from a decade earlier adjusted for inflation. According to the latest u s. The famed vinyl 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. Vinyl has bucked the trend. Cds out vinyl sees continue reading vinyl revival.

As more and more stores drop cds they are bringing back vinyl records that many people had given up for dead. Back on record the reasons behind vinyl s unlikely comeback april 17 2015 1 24am edt. In australia vinyl album purchases increased by 70 from 2012. Here are five possible reasons why vinyl is making a comeback.

Sony was the biggest producer of vinyl records through the 1980s. Why record albums are coming back. Why record albums are coming back. Record sales have been on the rise since 93.

It s been reviving for quite a few years now to the point where we can just about call it revived. Remember when compact discs better known as cds put the vinyl record industry out of business in the 1990s. The company decided that the cumbersome pieces of plastic were rendered obsolete by the cassette player and cd. Cds out vinyl sees revival.

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

A couple of decades later vinyl is finally getting its revenge.