Dette vil sikkert komme som en stor overraskelse på noen, men vinyl er definitivt på vei tilbake igjen. Sakset fra thebusinessonline.com:
According to Rob Campkin, the head of Music at Virgin Megastores, vinyl is now outselling CDs when it comes to the latest records.
Up to 70% of sales of new releases are vinyl. The fans of popular new rock bands like Arctic Monkeys and The Raconteurs prefer vinyl to CD, said Campkin. When the Raconteurs latest single was released, 80% of high-street sales were for seven-inch vinyl and only 20% were for CDs.
We are not just talking about vinyl singles but also about albums the format is just continuing to grow, said HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo.
The trend is born out by figures from record industry body, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). According to the BPIs findings, vinyl records are a technology that has come back from the brink of extinction to take the industry by storm. Between 2001 and 2005, annual sales of vinyl single in the UK rose sixfold to over 1m, accounting for 14.7% of all physical singles sales in 2005, up from 12.2% in 2004. The industry expects vinyl figures for the current year to be even more dramatic.