vinyl album sales hit record 973K copies in one week ending DEc 19th

[msongs]

most ever in a week since album sales began tracking by soundscan 20 yrs ago. vinyl is back baby.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/8547047/harry-styles-billie-eilish-beatles-record-vinyl-album-sales-week

[redstatebluegirl]

1. It is at our house! I just wish I had all the albums I sold when I went to cd.

Vinyl is such a great sound. Found some used Sansui speakers like the ones I had in college. Had them redone, got a great turntable and receiver and we were back in business. Estate sales are my friend.

[Submariner]

2. Tower Records was the vinyl dynasty that went under when everything went digital

I miss browsing in Tower. If vinyl is making a comeback then Tower needs to lead the way.

[RKP5637]

3. K&R!!!! n/t

[Xolodno]

4. Think they still exist in Japan.

They expanded to rapidly here in the US and the bank basically strong armed them to put in one of their people to run the company...of course, what they didn't say was, that person was there not to turn around the company, but liquidate it. Ironically, by selling off their Japanese stores, the company survives...tells you how much the bank got it wrong.

[UniteFightBack]

8. Many hours spent at Tower trying to whittle down what I was taking home that day. nt

[Xolodno]

5. I had few vinyl records under some dust that I discovered...

Guns n Roses Use Your Illusions 1 & 2, Motley Crue Theater of Pain, unopened, ACDC Dirty Deeds and a few others. Found them because we want to get rid of a lot of stuff that we don't use. After I found them, thought about getting a vinyl player....and my wife said, "we barely use the blu ray player, how often are you going to actually play those?". Point taken, I sold them to a vinyl shop, figured its better they go to someone who would appreciate them more than me buying something, play them once and forget about it.

[OriginalGeek]

6. That's all I buy

When available. The bands I like go all out on new vinyl too. Lots of extras like patches and pins and stickers and almost always have a digital download so I can easily listen in the car too. I wish I had never started buying CDs in the 90s... I'd have a lot more vinyl

[Captain Zero]

7. Soundscan only began tracking as the album format was basically dead, 1989.

Oh well ditching the album for 20+ years got rid of all the manufacturing plants that employed union labor to make albums. Now it's this happy little cottage industry. People probably not making what IBEW music industry workers were making in 1979.

[blm]

9. ✔️

[edbermac]

10. Still got my turntable.

Bang and Olufsen Beogram TX2. Only three records though. Haven’t used it in years or my CD player. All digital.