Great Information On The Future of Vinyl

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First some interesting insights into the current market.

Sales of physical music  products in 2019

      Demand for albums on vinyl & cassette formats continues to grow.

• Growth continues for vinyl – 4.3m LPs sold, the biggest total this century and sales up for a 12^th  consecutive year
• Liam Gallagher’s Why Me? Why Not -was the biggest seller selling over 29,000 copies.
• Cassette tapes – over 80,000 sold, the largest amount in 15 years- (although they only account for just 0.1% of overall recorded music consumption.)

Overall sales in 2019

• Downloads/streaming = 80%
• Vinyl albums = 19.9%
• Cassette Tapes = 0.1 %

Album Equivalent Sales up by 13% since start of decade

Initiatives like National Album Day and Record Store Day help the independent sector to ensure its place at the cutting edge of music.

     Summary of the decade: 2010 – 2019

The physical format remains remarkably resilient and still accounts for a fifth of music consumption.

Vinyl and cassettes have rebounded with both registering a 2,000 per cent rise since their low points in 2007 and 2012 respectively.