Vinyl sales up 36%


Well,well,well not to quote John Lennon,but it seems the Lp record is making a comeback. Sales of CD's has dropped at a time when Vinyl sales are rising. Now if they could only get the quality control issue dealt with they might have something here.
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Showing 2 responses by tomcy6

There's a January 10, 2008 Time magazine article about the resurgence of vinyl that has the 2007 numbers.

According to Nielsen SoundScan, of total album sales for 2007:
vinyl makes up about 0.2%
digital downloads are 10%
cds are 89.7%

The 0.2% equals 990,000 vinyl albums sold in 2007, up 15.4% from 858,000 units sold in 2006.
Here's the quote about the 36%
It refers to LPs shipped rather than LPs sold:

According to the Recording Industry Association of America, manufacturers' shipments of LPs jumped more than 36 percent from 2006 to 2007 to more than 1.3 million. Shipments of CDs dropped more than 17 percent during the same period to 511 million, as they lost some ground to digital formats.