RIAA Admits Vinyl Sales Are Climbing

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CD sales are and will forever be in the dumps, but surprisingly vinyl is showing an resurgence - could be the cover art, I know from experience that collecting it and digging for it is highly addictive. Excerpt and full article below :

Eliot Van Buskirk

According to the RIAA's recently-released 2007 sales report, the American music industry sold 36.6 percent more Extended Play (EP) and Long Play (LP) records than it had in the previous year, increasing vinyl sales revenue by 46.2 percent. CD unit sales, on the other hand, declined 11.7 percent with revenue dropping 20.5 percent during the same period.

I gathered plenty of evidence for this story, and all of it pointed to a vinyl resurgence, which is why the RIAA's response didn't seem to make much sense at the time. Now, it's clear that its numbers just hadn't caught up to the trend. With this report, the vinyl resurgence has been officially acknowledged by the RIAA.



Read the full article here:

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/riaa-admits-vin.html

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Throw away those Seratos and get you some Technics!