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...More than half a century after the heyday of LPs, EPs and singles, vinyl has gone through a renaissance as fans gobble them up as collectibles....
...The answer, like the LP, has two sides....
...Vinyl LP purchases rose 11.8 per cent year on year to 6.1mn units, their fastest pace in more than 30 years, showing the continued popularity of a format that had been written off by many as old-fashioned...
...Wags enjoy poking fun at people who spend money on vinyl LPs and the equipment that plays them....
...Think of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, or any of the 1960s’ concept albums; an idea popularised by the advent of the vinyl LP in the late 1940s....
...Orbia, a Mexican conglomerate, recently dismissed its CEO and reversed his plan to make the business more green by selling the vinyls division that drove its profits....
...It is good for 50,000 trigger operations, which means about 10,000 LP sides....
...I’ve been buying CDs as well, but vinyl is interesting for the sound you get – it says “slow down” – so I prefer to listen to an LP....
...The compact store in southern Stockholm, crammed with thousands of vinyl LPs, last week enjoyed a steady stream of customers taking advantage of Sweden’s no-lockdown approach to coronavirus....
...“The vinyl revival, which has seen sales of LPs reaching their highest levels in almost three decades, has generated an increase in the supply of counterfeit and bootleg product, often distributed via online...
...However, the auditory and tactile pleasures of vinyl have sparked a revival. US LP sales more than quadrupled to almost $400m in the seven years to 2017, according to trade body RIAA....
...As the vinyl revival got under way earlier this decade, the music industry started to take notice. In April 2015, the Official Charts Company launched a vinyl singles chart....
...Chinese overseas investment has focused disproportionately on fossil fuels Lex: Technological obsolescence: they think it’s all over Predicting the death of old technologies is seldom simple — as the vinyl...
...The vinyl revival has been one of the most remarkable stories in the music sector over the past decade as consumers have flocked to pay top dollar for LPs, or long-playing records as they were originally...
...Sales of vinyl records have surged, with people purchasing more records in the past 10 years than they did in the previous 20 combined....
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...On his 2005 swansong LP Cake or Death, he duets it with his grand-daughter . . . Phaedra is her name....
...His company, Rebeat Digital, based in Austria, applied for a European patent in March for high-definition vinyl....
...Ed Nawotka of Publishers Weekly attributes the continuing popularity of print to a “back to analogue” movement that has also driven up sales of vinyl LPs and Moleskine notebooks....
...YouTube and other advertising-funded video platforms delivered less income to labels than vinyl LPs, which generated £25m last year even though they represented less than 2 per cent of UK music consumption...
...It reads “LP.” It stands for “long play”, the analogue vinyl album that has been around since 1948....
...Vinyl is also showing strength. Sales of vinyl records surged 65 per cent to £42m, with 2.1m LPs sold over the past year....
...Sales of physical formats also slipped 10 per cent to $2bn, making up 28.8 per cent of total revenue, despite vinyl LP sales being up 32 per cent at $416m, the highest level since 1988....
...Another strong year for vinyl LP sales — up 32 per cent to $416m, the highest level since 1988 — could not offset a 17 per cent drop in sales of CDs....
...Similarly, the CD, the download and the streaming of digital music have created space at the top end for premium vinyl albums....
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