Why Is Vinyl Back

The famed vinyl revival.

Why is vinyl back.

Yet it s still here and still growing. Your vinyl is not peeling cleanly from the paper backing. Vinyl has been consigned to the garbage heap of history more than once. Nielsen music reports that vinyl sales for 2017 reached their highest level since 1991 with around 14 million records sold in the united states.

You are cutting too deep. After a 28 year hiatus sony announced that it was bringing back vinyl records. In australia vinyl album purchases increased by 70 from 2012. Sony was the biggest producer of vinyl records through the 1980s.

You ve undoubtedly heard it before. The company decided that the cumbersome pieces of plastic were rendered obsolete by the cassette player and cd. As record store day shows there s a lot more to the vinyl revival than simple nostalgia. When you pick up your design with your transfer tape some of the backing rips off and stays on the back of the vinyl.

The real problem with vinyl was that it made hbo look bad. But ratings have never been a huge concern for hbo. 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. In the end it drew meager ratings because you ve seen the same plot 1 000 times already.

Record sales have been on the rise since 93. 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. Here are five possible reasons why vinyl is making a comeback. Your decal for a customer will not weed cleanly off the backing paper.

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. Sony brings back vinyl. It s probably two thirds of what we sell now he said.

But as 2018 begins the business and culture of vinyl stand at an unlikely juncture. The vinyl albums have been selling a little bit more and a little bit more and now it s kind of steamrolled. 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.