Vinyl record sales increase by over 300 %!

**luke** · 08-13-2013, 12:42 PM

900,000 in 2011 to 4 and a half million in 2012. Never say never!

**arrr&bee** · 08-17-2013, 05:28 PM

Damn right...vinyl forever!!

**soulster** · 08-17-2013, 09:23 PM

A lot of it came about because they screw with the sound on CDs. Too much compression is being used.

thomas96 · 08-17-2013, 11:08 PM

Is this based on new albums released on vinyl selling, or older reissues on vinyl, what? Could a record company succeed these days by only releasing stuff on vinyl?

**soulster** · 08-18-2013, 05:59 PM

Originally Posted by thomas96

Is this based on new albums released on vinyl selling, or older reissues on vinyl, what? Could a record company succeed these days by only releasing stuff on vinyl?

No, they could not. Downloads account for the largest piece of the pie today.

**alanh** · 08-19-2013, 04:45 PM

Thomas, I think that the current vinyl sales are a combination of what you say -12" dance [[as in the past), some new groups who want to release singles and albums on vinyl for the 'old feeling', plus a fair number of re-pressings of albums that came out in the past. As soulster says I don't think a company could survive on vinyl only - having said that, there may be a few 'vinyl only' releases for certain specialist releases/genres.

As soulster also says downloads account for the largest share compared to physical in the US [[57% download v 43% physical in 2012), but in the UK physical is still ahead [[59% physical v 41% download in 2012), but the balance is expected to switch by the end of the year in the UK too - mainly tipped by the problems faced by the last remaining high street music store HMV.

Again some figures from the UK - 2.9million vinyl albums have been sold in the first six months of the year! That's a 33.5% increase. But vinyl sales are still only 2% of albums sales overall [[142m) during the six months.