Vinyl albums alive and well, thank you
p2pnet news view | Mobiles:- As Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA pissed and moaned about how terrible thing were with the corpulent (sorry, corporate) music industry in 2008, vinyl album sales climbed, p2pnet quoted the Associated Press as saying yesterday.
“In 2008, more vinyl albums were purchased (1.88 million) than any other year since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991,” it stated, going on:
“More than two of every three vinyl albums were purchased at an independent music store during the year, the company reported.”
Also yesterday, “For all its convenience, flipping through the 10,000 tracks crammed onto my iPod has given me the attention span of a common house fly,” wrote Adrian Fusiarski on Buzzsonic, going on »»»
When I was buying vinyl it was more of an event, you read the sleeve, you held it up and admired it, hell, you even read the label and the etch scratched on the run out groove by the mastering engineer. My first vinyl single was mastered at London’s Abbey Road studios, my last one in 2005 was done on a laptop in a home studio set up.
You can’t stand in the way of technology, he says, adding:
“Industry observers say vinyl record sales have skyrocketed because new buyers are discovering the value of owning albums, with their cover art, large liner notes and warm sound. According to Computer World who spoke to one of the few vinyl pressing plants left in the US, Rainbo, they’d doubled vinyl production from 2006 to 2007 and more than doubled record output this past year.”
p2pnet - Web music sales up, albums sales plummet, January 1, 2009
Associated Press – Album sales plunge, digital downloads up, January 1, 2009
Buzzsonic - Its Official, Vinyl Not Dead Shock, January 2, 2009
Computer World – Back to the future: Vinyl record sales double in ‘08, CDs down, January 2, 2009
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January 3rd, 2009 at 10:24 pm
“More than two of every three vinyl albums were purchased at an _independent_ music store during the year, the company reported.”
Here we are. At least the big four are NOT benefitting from these sales increases. Actually, it looks like they are NOT ABLE to produce anything WORTH putting onto the vinyl. As for “Britney on vinyl”, I simply can’t imagine that.
January 4th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Vinyl always has, and always will sound better than any form of digital music (especially rock music). My band’s upcoming 7″ has seen lots of delays at the pressing plant due to a huge influx of vinyl orders. Once again, good old fasioned analog reigns supreme!