Global vinyl record sales continue to boom: The LP’s remarkable revival will continue this year, with more than 90 per cent of revenues coming from sales of new and second-hand discs, according to Deloitte. It will be the seventh year on the bounce that sales of 12-inch records have recorded double-digit growth, pushing their share of the physical music market to 18 per cent. Paul Lee, Deloitte’s head of technology, media and telecoms (TMT) research, said vinyl’s resurgence more than 40 years after its peak was a phenomenon.
Liverpool record shop Dig Vinyl announce first release on new label: Since opening in 2014 the shop has expanded in the basement under Soho on Bold Street, doubling in size in its initial year, and now Dig Vinyl want to support local creativity by putting out a range of handpicked, limited records on beautiful vinyl, in addition to digital formats. ‘Dig Vinyl on Bold Street has always been about bringing together people who love music and want to explore outside the mainstream; a shop for musical pioneers as well as collectors and vinyl heads. We naturally wished to build on this and create a platform for local new music that is interesting and unusual yet also full of melody and potential so was born the Dig Vinyl label,’ says Dig Vinyl’s Carl Emery.
How a Petersfield music lover helped get record shops back on track: He has sold vinyl, tapes and CDs to hundreds of record shops around the UK over 30 years, and lays claim to have visited more than anybody else. So it was a labour of love, and out of a growing concern that they would disappear from our towns and cities that Graham Jones, of Petersfield, produced the book and film Last Shop Standing. And to celebrate the opening last year of Vinyl Matters in Bakery Lane, Petersfield – his new, most local record store – he is hosting a screening of the film at Steep Village Hall on Friday, February 3, at 7.30pm.
Millennials are snapping up vintage vinyl in WR: Vinyl sales are back in a big way, and it’s Millennials buying those records, not just Baby Boomers remembering their high school days. Jim Heaslip is a collector who sells his old school vinyl out of the St. Jacobs Market. He deals in rare records and collectibles. He tells 570News that in the last five years it’s Millennials driving his business locally, along with some Baby Boomers rediscovering their turntable and that record sound. Heaslip says if you are collecting, you want early pressings. He says they are always going to be worth more, and those are the ones that are also getting harder to find.
Anita Robinson: Vinyl revival prompts memories of the way we were: Now vinyl’s back, sales of record-players are booming and people who rashly gave away or dumped the originals are kicking themselves. A friend of mine who, for charity, followed the advice in a women’s magazine, heated her vinyl records in the oven till pliable, draped each one over an upturned bowl and, hey presto, produced snazzy black flowerpots with ready made drainage hole. In the immortal words of Connie Francis, “Who’s sorry now?”
Rhino records flexes some serious vinyl-reissue muscle with their START YOUR EAR OFF RIGHT project, with titles by John Prine & Iron ButterflyY coming Tuesday, Jan. 10th! Last January, Rhino launched its first ever “Start Your Ear Off Right” campaign, releasing titles from some their most revered artists as a special campaign in the month of January. Having been met with rousing reception last year from fans and record stores alike, Rhino is returning again in 2017 with another formidable batch of releases. Beginning on Tuesday, January 10, and continuing each Tuesday through the rest of the month, Rhino will release new vinyl titles from some of the most celebrated acts in music including Cheap Trick, Foreigner, Lil’ Kim, Madonna, The Cars, The Replacements, The Stooges and yes, many of them limited editions.
Vinyl records and going to mass: I think that today many people, especially younger people, have and are searching for authenticity and ritual when it comes to faith. Many times when kids go off to college they can trendily loose their faith, in part, because they were not very involved in their faith prior or did not have a good knowledge of what their faith actually believed. So when they reach the relativistic and pluralistic collegiate arena, while not firmly rooted in their beliefs and understandings, they are quickly drowned in the ocean of other people’s opinions, ideas, and religious traditions.
