Vinyl sales, which reached a 25-year high, and a continued increase in streaming offset decline in CD sales as music consumption rose last year, according to official music industry figures.
Vinyl sales rose by 53 per cent to top 3.2 million units – the most LPs sold since 1991. The biggest-selling vinyl artist was David Bowie, whose untimely death spurred interest in his back catalogue. Amy Winehouse's Back To Black also did well for similar reasons.
Just over 200,000 LPs were purchased in 2007. The 16-fold increase since underlines the strength of the vinyl revival.
Sales of CDs declined 11.7 per cent or more than a tenth in 2016.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @04:12AM
You're not doing it right until you're playing vinyl via a single-tube amp driving paper-cone speakers. Really, nothing less than an early '30s radio will do for the purest hipness and highest fidelity.