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According to the data, shared by the BBC, vinyl album sales accounted for about $3 million of music sales in the United Kingdom last week, while digital album downloads accounted for about $2.6 million in sales. While this is certainly an interesting trend, there are a couple of things to note.

First, this data is referring to album sales only, thus not taking into account single song downloads, which tend to be more plentiful than full album downloads. Though, album downloads obviously bring in more revenue in the end.

Additionally, vinyl albums tend to cost more than digital albums, as evident by the fact that 120,000 vinyl albums were sold last week, while 295,000 digital ones were sold.

Nevertheless, this is a surprising statistic and shows huge growth for the vinyl industry. During the same week last year, vinyl albums accounted for $1.5 million in sales, while digital downloads accounted for $5.6 million.

In 2007, vinyl was nearing extinction but since then, the format has shown 8 consecutive years of growth. Furthermore, it’s interesting to note that according to a BBC poll earlier this year, people aren’t necessarily buying vinyl records to listen to them. The poll showed that 48 percent of people surveyed do not play the vinyls they buy, while 7 percent of buyers didn’t even own a record player.

“This is yet further evidence of the ability of music fans to surprise us all,” said ERA chief Kim Bayley.

“It’s not so long ago that the digital download was meant to be the future. Few would have predicted that an album format, first invented in 1948 and based on stamping a groove into a piece of plastic, would now be outselling it in 2016.”

This ultimately is likely due to the emergence of streaming services. People are taking the price difference between buying multiple albums per month and the one-time streaming service monthly charge and putting it towards vinyls. According to the same BBC poll, one of the most common reasons people buy vinyl is as a “goodwill gesture to an artist they love.”

As the habit of purchasing and downloading music becomes less and less common, there was a report that Apple was considering killing iTunes music downloads all together earlier this year, though the company itself refuted that claim.

Personally, I’ve definitely spent more on vinyl albums over the past year than I have digital downloads. Apple Music is my primary way of consuming music and I see buying vinyl as a collector habit more than anything. What do you think? Are you still buying vinyl? Let us know down in the comments.

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Στο «Μουσείο Αυτοκινήτου», οι δίσκοι βινυλίου παίρνουν τη θέση τους δίπλα στα κλασσικά μοντέλα αυτοκινήτου, σε μια παράλληλη διαδρομή στο χρόνο. Το φεστιβάλ θα πραγματοποιηθεί το τριήμερο: Παρασκευή 9, Σάββατο 10 και Κυριακή 11 Δεκεμβρίου, με ελεύθερη είσοδο.

Από τις παράλληλες δράσεις ξεχωρίζουν οι πλειστηριασμοί δίσκων, όπου μπορείς να βρεις τους πιο σπάνιους δίσκους των εκθετών που θα τους διεκδικήσουν οι vinyl maniacs σε ειδικά διαμορφωμένο χώρο, αλλά και διαδικτυακά για πρώτη φορά.

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Ελληνικό Μουσείο Αυτοκινήτου: Γ΄ Σεπτεμβρίου 74-78 & Ιουλιανού 33-35 (4ος όροφος), Πλησίον σταθμού ΗΣΑΠ – Στάση «Βικτώρια» & Μετρό «Ομόνοια»

Είσοδος: Ελεύθερη

Ώρες λειτουργίας: Παρασκευή 9 Δεκεμβρίου : 5 μ.μ. – 9 μ.μ. Σάββατο 10 Δεκεμβρίου : 11 π.μ. – 9 μ.μ. Κυριακή 11 Δεκεμβρίου : 11 π.μ. – 9 μ.μ.

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It’s strange how the bedroom producer revolution and the vinyl revolution are happening at once; one is forward-thinking, while the other is about vintage novelty. Now, thanks to a startup company called Vinylize.it, the two have finally crossed paths.

With Vinylize.it, any user can submit a playlist that they want to see pressed on wax. Vinylize.it then aggregates that playlist’s demand for pressings and popularity, and asks each artist on the playlist for permission to publish their tracks.

Once permissions are locked down, the playlist is sent over to Qrates, a personal pressing site that is similarly based on crowdsourcing. Qrates is sort of like Kickstarter for independent music, and has been celebrated within the industry for allowing smaller labels to press their releases. So, once your playlist reaches this step, the demand for a pressing is crossed over into Qrates’ algorithm to turn the playlist into its final, tangible form.

It seems like a long and convoluted process, but imagine a vinyl pressing of a Juliana Huxtable DJ set playing in your living room, or a Soulection radio mix with the audio quality of an old Joy Division record. This service, if successful, could turn the endless landscape of Soundcloud files into organized, physical stacks of wax. The site is still in its early phases, but you can sign up for updates here.

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BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) has revealed the number of units sold could reach the highest amount for the first time in 20 years, following news that streaming services are encouraging people to buy physical records.

Gennaro Castaldo, Director of Communications at BPI, said: “Sales of vinyl have risen dramatically since their low point in 2007, with over two million LPs purchased last year for the first time in more than two decades.

“With no let-up in sight, the BPI has every expectation this trend will continue, and estimates that up to 3.5 million LPs or more could be purchased during the course of 2016”.
Supermarkets Tesco and Sainsbury’s are both selling wax now, contributing to the increased sales, with purchases in the United States also flying high.

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