In the week ending Dec. 26, a whopping 1.243 million vinyl albums were sold, marking the single largest sales week for the format since Nielsen Music began electronically tracking music sales in 1991. Further, it is the first time vinyl LP sales have surpassed 1 million copies in a single week in the Nielsen Music era.

The previous largest week for the vinyl album format in the Nielsen Music era was set just a week earlier, when 973,000 vinyl LPs were sold in the frame ending Dec. 19.
billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/8547164/weekly-vinyl-album-sales-top-1-million-first-time-nielsen-era

Goddamn

makes sense

I thought it died off already wtf

I mean yeah people get vinyls for Christmas

Vinyl has been making a huge comeback for last 5-10 years. They are going to sell more than CDs this year for the first time since 1986

Yes. That's probably why it sold 1.243 million that week but Vinyls are now bigger than CDs. Vinyl sales are about to hit a 30 year high in 2019

yeah I know about the comeback but I thought the comeback died in late 2018/early 2019 tbh

wild

Phonographs are dumb expensive tho

It continues to grow around 13% year to year

Depends on if you want to pay for quality or not and the safety of your records. My record player was around $500 plus $400 speakers but I love it. The continuous rise of vinyl prices is ridiculous though

Everyone's buying vinyls as gifts for Holidays

half of them is probably just for the looks (like people buying 4 Blonde vinyls just to hang them on their wall bc they look slick)

but wouldn't mind if this trend came back
spending real money on an album makes you enjoy it more

kinda wish I could go back to times where you had to search for hours to find that one album you want to download and then you listen to it for two weeks straight

now with streaming everything comes and goes

That's actually a perfect scenario

You want to have your music fast - buy Spotify
You want to enjoy an album and support the artist - buy a Vinyl. Not only it looks better then CDs but the sound has more to it.

No point in even producing CDs in 2020

Got my girl a lp player and Igor on vinyl for xmas

This. Collecting vinyl is so much cooler than collecting cds

funny thing is just yesterday I bought my friend two vinyls for his birthday. One Led Zeppelin and on Pink Floyd. And man... The quality is next level. Big booklets, lyrics, everything. Feels like something you really could enjoy collecting.

CDs are a waste rn

powerful

I don’t know what to tell you guys, I collect anything I can get my hands on. Records, CDs, DVDs, Tapew. It’s all good