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...A new generation of cool kids rediscovered vinyl. Even CD sales blipped up last year. Some countries have stronger attachments to analogue technologies....
...It takes a cut of just 10 to 15 per cent from artists for downloads and sales of vinyl, CDs and merchandise....
...find out about our latest stories first Letter in response to this article: Without the Sex Pistols there’d be no Duran Duran / From Travis Elborough, Author of ‘The Long-Player Goodbye: the Album from Vinyl...
...Letter in response to this article: Apple cannot let privacy trump its child safety code / From David Westlake, Chief Executive, International Justice Mission UK, Witham, Essex, UK...
...Porcelain white (the early coloured vinyl faded in the sun) with heavy kohl liner and a red cupid’s bow pout, she came wearing a zebra-print swimsuit, high heels, gold hoop earrings and sunglasses....
...Just under $10m went to two accounts which investigators alleged were controlled by Riad Salame, under the name of Panama-registered “Westlake Commercial Inc” at Julius Baer, and Swiss-registered “SI 2 SA...
...This may be partly because some feel like oddballs themselves — “obsessive, neurotic, compulsive, competitive, nerdy, very knowledgeable” was how one vinyl record collector described others in one study,...
...“When music went to streaming, it was very clear to me that there was no more pressing of CDs and vinyls and all of that intensive labour and distribution was gone,” Stoute said in an interview....
...A rare vinyl record could be a financial investment, purchased to be sold later at a profit. A bandanna worn by Jimi Hendrix onstage is a way to connect with an iconic moment in cultural history....
...Schibsted first entered the classified business in 2000 when it launched finn.no, an ad platform in Norway that is popular for selling everything from houses to vinyl records and which the media company...
...Just as the dominance of digital music downloads now coexists happily with the return of vinyl, the physical book has not only prevailed but taken on a new cultural cachet — in part, thanks to social media...
...Mr Putman said he intended to focus more on vinyl, in-store events and expanding the back catalogue....
...But he pointed to a silver lining for Urban Outfitters, whose stores sell vinyl records, books and party supplies, as well as trendy clothing....
...But according to Messrs Haskel and Westlake, it also seems to reduce investment across the economy as a whole....
...First unveiled by Columbia Records at a Waldorf Astoria presser in 1948, the 12-inch vinyl could only hold 45 minutes of music in total....
...Additional reporting by Tim Bradshaw in Los Angeles and Hannah Kuchler in San Francisco Letter in response to this article: Sending a wrong message / From Mark Frankcom, Westlake Village, CA, US...
...When Beyoncé headlined the show in 2006, CDs and vinyl records made up more than 90 per cent of music sales....
...In the not-so-distant past, any form of media you purchased, whether it be a DVD, comic or a vinyl, was by virtue of its physical format, complete. Unless the film was directed by Ridley Scott....
...Sheeran topped the vinyl charts for 2017. The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac also featured, with heritage acts continuing to sell well on the older format....
...That is the theme of an intriguing new book, Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy, by Jonathan Haskel of Imperial College and Stian Westlake of Nesta....
...That is about the same amount that US network HBO spent on the first season of Vinyl, its 2016 rock drama which it cancelled....
...Vinyl now accounts for 15 per cent of the overall album market and almost 5 per cent of overall industry revenue....
...But the CD is still king in Japan, where consumers spent more than $2bn last year on plastic-covered albums and vinyl records in some 6,000 music stores....
...Sales of vinyl records have surged, with people purchasing more records in the past 10 years than they did in the previous 20 combined....
...Sales of physical music fell by 7.6 per cent last year, but the CD and booming vinyl markets remain resilient....
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