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posted by janrinok on Thursday January 05 2017, @02:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the where-did-I-put-that-Dansette-record-player? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @05:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @05:20PM (#449818)

    Trump's fault, and brexit, and Mariah Carey (did no one see her "interview" with ryan seacrest prior to her performing? no one has mentioned that, she was obviously intoxicated before she got on stage, probably Trump's fault also).