Why Is Vinyl Coming Back

It s been reviving for quite a few years now to the point where we can just about call it revived.

Why is vinyl coming back.

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

Record production has set a record and made a comeback in 2017. 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. In australia vinyl album purchases increased by 70 from 2012. The past five or six years have seen the real boom with vinyl sales in the country and around the world absolutely thriving.

The famed vinyl revival. Record sales have been on the rise since 93. 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.

Sony brings back vinyl. As record store day shows there s a lot more to the vinyl revival than simple nostalgia. The company decided that the cumbersome pieces of plastic were rendered obsolete by the cassette player and cd. Sony was the biggest producer of vinyl records through the 1980s.

You ve undoubtedly heard it before. These types of massive and costly releases often including material that s already available help explain why it s still so easy for many to question the sustainability of the vinyl recovery. Remember when compact discs better known as cds put the vinyl record industry out of business in the 1990s. Back on record the reasons behind vinyl s unlikely comeback april 17 2015 1 24am edt.

After a 28 year hiatus sony announced that it was bringing back vinyl records.