Why Is Vinyl Coming Back

In australia vinyl album purchases increased by 70 from 2012.

Why is vinyl coming back.

The past five or six years have seen the real boom with vinyl sales in the country and around the world absolutely thriving. As more and more stores drop cds they are bringing back vinyl records that many people had given up for dead. You ve undoubtedly heard it before. Cds out vinyl sees continue reading vinyl revival.

Remember when compact discs better known as cds put the vinyl record industry out of business in the 1990s. After a 28 year hiatus sony announced that it was bringing back vinyl records. A couple of decades later vinyl is finally getting its revenge. Record production has set a record and made a comeback in 2017.

It s been reviving for quite a few years now to the point where we can just about call it revived. The famed vinyl revival. 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. Back on record the reasons behind vinyl s unlikely comeback april 17 2015 1 24am edt.

As record store day shows there s a lot more to the vinyl revival than simple nostalgia. Why record albums are coming back. Nielsen music reports that vinyl sales for 2017 reached their highest level since 1991 with around 14 million records sold in the united states. Here are five possible reasons why vinyl is making a comeback.

Sony brings back vinyl. 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. Cds out vinyl sees revival shake it records a vintage record shop is enjoying the vinyl revival at the same time stores like best buy are dropping music cds best buy says it will no longer. Record sales have been on the rise since 93.

Sony was the biggest producer of vinyl records through the 1980s.