Why Is Vinyl Coming Back

The company decided that the cumbersome pieces of plastic were rendered obsolete by the cassette player and cd.

Why is vinyl coming back.

Back on record the reasons behind vinyl s unlikely comeback april 17 2015 1 24am edt. Here are five possible reasons why vinyl is making a comeback. A couple of decades later vinyl is finally getting its revenge. The past five or six years have seen the real boom with vinyl sales in the country and around the world absolutely thriving.

Sony was the biggest producer of vinyl records through the 1980s. Nielsen music reports that vinyl sales for 2017 reached their highest level since 1991 with around 14 million records sold in the united states. 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 australia vinyl album purchases increased by 70 from 2012.

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. Sony brings back vinyl. 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.

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. 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. Why record albums are coming back.

As record store day shows there s a lot more to the vinyl revival than simple nostalgia. Cds out vinyl sees continue reading vinyl revival. 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.

The famed vinyl revival.