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08-MRT-2010: Vinyl sales sqeeeze downloads
SALES of vinyl records and cassette tapes are soaring as music fans rebel against digital downloads.
Old fashioned album sales topped 2.8million in 2009, up a million on the year before in the US.
And British sales are rising fast too, jumping 5.2 per cent last year.
But music experts believe the true figures are even higher, as official statistics only include sales from
shops that report to the Official UK Charts Company.
Smaller record shops and albums sold at concerts are not included.
Trendy indie labels are leading the way, with some axing CDs to release on seven inch single, vinyl album and downloads only...
01-MAR-2010: Record store day moet platenverkoop stimuleren
Dit jaar zal Record Store Day pas echt Nederland veroveren. Zo’n 56 onafhankelijke platenzaken bevestigden
hun deelname aan de viering van platenwinkels, muziekliefhebbers en artiesten op 17 april. Zij zullen op die dag niet
alleen workshops, optredens en loterijen organiseren, maar ook exclusieve Vinyl en cd-releases verkopen.
In 2008 opende Metallica de eerste Record Store Day in Amerika. Vorig jaar waaide het idee over naar Japan,
Australië en Europa. Enkele Nederlandse platenwinkels namen toen ook al voorzichtig deel, maar dit jaar kunnen
we voor het eerst van een landelijke Record Store Day spreken...
23-FEB-2010: The vinyl album is getting its groove back
Yes, it's struggling, with album sales down by half since the historical high it set in 2000 - sales dropped
another 8.5 percent in 2009 to 489.8 million, even as overall music sales climbed 2.1 percent, according to
Nielsen SoundScan. Album-buying havens, such as the Virgin Megastores and the Tower Records chains, vanished,
and music industry and technology leaders have been trumpeting what they see as the more attractive profit
margins of single sales and $1.29-a-pop downloading for years...
18-FEB-2010: Vinyl record sales are surging
Disco? Dead. Mood rings? Obsolete. Vinyl records? Retro-cool and spinning back to life.
Vinyl sales nationwide topped 2.5 million in 2009, a 33 percent increase from 2008's 1.9 million, according to Nielsen
SoundScan. At Half Price Books, vinyl sales for the past year were up about 3 percent in Texas.
"Vinyl is kind of going crazy, and we thought it was going to be the dinosaur," says Kirk Thompson, public relations
manager at Half Price Books in Dallas. "And actually, it's CDs that are kind of going by the wayside."...
17-FEB-2010: De laatste der Mohikanen (5): Vinylarchief, Nijmegen
Natuurlijk gaat het niet goed met de meeste platenzaken in Nederland, en natuurlijk heeft dat voor een groot deel met
internet te maken, maar eigenaar Rob Berbee ziet ook de zegeningen van het web. "Jarenlang heeft de echte verzamelaar
veel teveel betaald voor dingen die in Europa zeldzaam waren. Door eBay kunnen we ze nu veel makkelijker uit de Verenigde
Staten halen. Daar zijn de voorraden altijd veel groter geweest waardoor de prijzen veel lager liggen. Eigenlijk betekent
internet de democratisering van de muziek. Ik ga niet met de wolven in het bos mee staan huilen, de echte speciaalzaken
redden het wel."...
09-FEB-2010: Record Store Day moet publiek terugbrengen in platenwinkels
Op 17 april maakt Nederland echt kennis met Record Store Day. Een dag waarop de platenzaak het publiek wil verleiden
door exclusieve vinyl, cd's of dvd's aan te bieden en bijvoorbeeld gitaren te verloten. Ook treden er Nederlandse
artiesten op. De viering van de onafhankelijke speciaalzaak is in 2009 uit de VS overgewaaid. Toen deden
in Nederland alleen Plato en Concerto mee. Dit jaar participeren zo'n vijftig winkels, evenals de
meeste grote labels...
01-FEB-2010: De ultieme nostalgiemachine
In een tijd waarin de halve wereld met Ipod-oortjes rondloopt en illegaal downloaden de muziekindustrie
op haar kop zet, heeft de Duitser Ulrich Sourisseau van Souris Automaten een toestel bedacht dat het
ultieme anachronisme lijkt: een vinylrecorder.
Op Midem, de jaarlijkse muziekbeurs in Cannes die afgelopen week plaatsvond, wekte de recorder grote nieuwsgierigheid,
en dat is niet verwonderlijk. Hifiwinkels bieden tegenwoordig platenspelers met een USB-poort aan, waarmee de muziekfan
zijn hele vinylcollectie kan digitaliseren. En daar komt Sourisseau net met het omgekeerde aanzetten: met de
vinylrecorder kan iedereen thuis op een nieuwe vinylplaat stereo-opnames maken van zijn cd's...
25-JAN-2010: Verslag: De Dag van het Vinyl
Hoe lok je vinylfanaten zo snel mogelijk je tent binnen? Geef de eerste bezoekers gewoon een bijzondere
vinylsingle kado. De driehonderd gelimiteerde splitsingles (met tracks van The Use of Ashes en DeWolff)
die gisteren te verdelen waren onder de eerste bezoekers van De Dag van het Vinyl in 013 waren in no time
weg. Onder de vroege vogels natuurlijk ook de traditionele koopjesjagers, die hun slag wilden slaan op de platenmarkt.
De eerste, succesvolle editie van de Dag van het Vinyl, georganiseerd door Selected Sounds, Muziek.nl, HiFi.nl en 013,
was veel meer dan een platenbeurs. Alle hoeken en gaten van het Tilburgse popcentrum werden benut voor
onder meer live-optredens van bands en deejays, debatten, een popquiz en een workshop. Ook hadden hifi-
producenten hun mooiste waar uitgestald. Voor één dag werd de cd massaal in de ban gedaan; alles stond
in het teken van het ambachtelijke vinyl, het zwarte goud...
23-JAN-2010: Vinyl Is On The Comeback
"They lied to us, man," he said.
Flipping through old vinyl albums at a used-record shop, I did what anyone does when a fellow human bares his
soul: I ignored him. "They said CDs would sound better," he persisted. "They lied!" He rapped a vintage Ramsey
Lewis album on the edge of the bin, like a gavel, releasing that distinct scent of dust and decomposing cardboard.
"I got rid of my record player. I let my records go. And they never even bothered to bring back half of my old jazz
albums. Not half. It was like they hooked us, and then they gutted us."...
21-JAN-2010: Mythen en Misverstanden 18: Vuil Vinyl
Vinyl is hot, in de VS met name in gebruikte vorm terwijl veel Europese audiofielen meer de neiging schijnen te
hebben om naar nieuw zwart goud te grijpen. Het betreft dan vooral re-issues van fameuze albums, al dan niet
uitgevoerd in 180 of zelfs 200 grams persingen.
Daar zitten schitterende uitgaven tussen, compleet met inlays en zware buitenhoezen. Menig audiofiel koopt
voornamelijk nieuw vinyl uit de overtuiging dat dat altijd beter zal klinken en vrij zal zijn van vervuiling
want het is nieuw, toch?...
13-JAN-2010: Vinyl records have a place among high-tech gadgetry
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas acts as a sort of barometer of what's to come in gadgets and
technology. This year, exhibitors were obsessed with 3-D television and open software platforms. But in
some areas of the Las Vegas Convention Center last week, vinyl records, a century-old technology, were
a hip centerpiece. The vinyl resurgence has been written about before, but it was largely exclusive to
hipsters and fogies, not tech geeks or clarity-focused audiophiles.
Yet, after being supplanted by three formats, vinyl lingers...
12-JAN-2010: Beatles Top List Of Best Selling Vinyl Records
Soundscan has finally released the numbers for the best selling vinyl albums of 2009, and the results are similar to
the CD sales: The Beatles and Michael Jackson dominate the list, as The Beatles moved 34,000 copies of Abbey Road,
while Jackson moved 29,800 copies of Thriller. For contrast, Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion, the third
best selling vinyl record of the year, moved only 14,000 copies...
07-JAN-2010: Digital albums, vinyl made a comeback in '09 while CDs slide
Physical CD sales continued their slide into oblivion in 2009, but online sales remained strong, even if not quite as
strong as 2008. Nearly everything online was up and everything physical was down—except for vinyl,
which continues to have a fierce following...
04-JAN-2010: Waxing nostalgic over records
An avalanche here would bury Paul Forshey.
It could takes days to reach him under all that vinyl. "Elvis in Memphis." The Rolling Stones' "Beggars Banquet." A
whole boxed set of Art Tatum's solo piano.
Forshey, 44, is a peddler of nostalgia. In this age of phones that can connect you to Internet radio stations
across the world and put 10,000 songs in your pocket, the vinyl record has never really gone away. Forshey is
proof that now matter how much technology we use to blast ourselves into the future, there is still money to be
made on the past. In each of the last couple years, he's earned more than $10,000 on a technology that was declared
dead about 25 years ago...
02-JAN-2010: How Records Got Their Groove Back
"They lied to us, man," he said.
Flipping through old vinyl albums at a used-record shop, I did what anyone does when a fellow human bares his soul:
I ignored him. "They said CDs would sound better," he persisted. "They lied!" He rapped a vintage Ramsey Lewis
album on the edge of the bin, like a gavel, releasing that distinct scent of dust and decomposing cardboard.
"I got rid of my record player. I let my records go. And they never even bothered to bring back half of my old jazz
albums. Not half. It was like they hooked us, and then they gutted us."...
30-DEC-2009: De laatste der Mohikanen (4): Da Capo, Utrecht
Het gaat niet goed met platenzaken de laatste jaren. Daarom gaat 3VOOR12 langs bij winkels die het waard zijn om een
stukje voor om te rijden. Deze week een echte vinylpurist aan het woord: eigenaar Michel Terstegen van DaCapo te Utrecht.
Vanaf 1986 runt hij aan de Utrechtse Oudegracht op nummer 10 een eigenwijze muziekwinkel. De handel van toen is de handel
van nu. En die bestaat voor het merendeel uit vinyl, nieuw en tweedehands. Terstegen zweert erbij...
21-DEC-2009: De Dag Van Het Vinyl in 013
Op zondag 24 januari as. vindt in 013 Tilburg een muzikaal evenement plaats in het teken van audio en platen:
De Dag van het Vinyl. 013 is die dag een ontmoetingsplaats voor verzamelaars, audio-liefhebbers en nieuwsgierigen.
Speciaal voor de eerste bezoekers ligt er de supergelimiteerde 7” single klaar met de bands DeWolff en The Use
of Ashes. In een oplage van 300 op voorhand een collectors item...
10-DEC-2009: De laatste der Mohikanen (3): platenzaken in Nederland
Bart Gabriëlse is sinds 2006 de eigenaar en enig personeelslid van Spin. Daarvoor was de winkel
in handen van Gilly Verrest, ook eigenaar van De Waterput in Bergen Op Zoom. Gabriëlse: “Toen
ik begon was ik met 23 jaar de jongste eigenaar in Nederland, misschien wel in heel Europa. Na
mij zijn er trouwens in deze branche geen nieuwe zaken meer bijgekomen in Nederland.” Teken aan
de wand? Gabriëlse denkt er anders over: “Natuurlijk zijn er wel betere tijden geweest voor
platenzaken, maar ik hoef me geen zorgen te maken.”..
08-DEC-2009: How vinyl record sales stack up
CD sales are off 13 percent in 2009 heading into the lucrative holiday shopping season, after a
20 percent annual drop in 2008 from the year before, but sales of vinyl records are bucking that trend.
Vinyl record sales reached 1.9 million units in 2008 and are on track to sell nearly 2.8 million units
in 2009, according to industry tracker Nielsen SoundScan. Those numbers account only for stores that
report to Nielsen and not smaller record shops or albums sold at concerts...
08-DEC-2009: Vinyl's Comeback Makes Musicians Want to Sing
As music lovers approach a new decade in this still-young century, a recording technology once
considered old and obsolete -- vinyl -- has been making a strong comeback.
Vinyl albums, which began to be replaced by CDs in the mid-1980s, have rebounded in recent years as enthusiasts
young and old turned sentimental for the old pops, cracks and warm sounds emitting from grooves on a record.
And as sales have rebounded, music makers ranging from big acts like Jack White and the Flaming Lips to local bands
in major cities have been cranking out vinyl and treating fans with added material like old-style liner notes or
posters...
07-DEC-2009: New York Music Retailers See Resurgence of Vinyl Album
When New York's last Virgin Megastore retreated this year with its tail between its legs following years of
sliding CD sales, many figured the store's closing was just a sign of the way we live now: Consumers in a digital
world gobble up last year's technology faster than they can hang compact discs on the wall as decorative plates.
But maybe they left too quickly?...
02-DEC-2009: Vinyl frontier: Why records sales are soaring again
Record geeks rarely need a reason to feel smug, but vinyl hoarders worldwide had reassuring news the other week
as Nielsen SoundScan released figures predicting that sales of proper, old-fashioned albums will top 2.8m by the
end of 2009. This will mean an increase of almost 1m on last year and the highest annual figure for vinyl
sales since SoundScan began tracking them in 1991...
28-NOV-2009: Bankrupt DJ Mike Read forced to flog rare Beatles collection
Former Radio One DJ Mike Read is selling off his prized collection of 120,000 vinyls, featuring rare Beatles
records, after being declared bankrupt.
The 62-year-old, who also presented Top Of The Pops, needed to sell after he went into the red earlier this year owing unpaid taxes.
The records which feature pop legend Billy Fury and Liverpool band Echo and the Bunnymen have an auction guide price of
£600,000, but experts estimate it is worth at least £1m.
The collection includes a Sir Paul McCartney audio reel, official Beatles albums and a demo disc of John Lennon’s
Whatever Gets You Through The Night.
A boxed promotional set of nine records by Sir Paul McCartney and a signed photograph of the star will
also go under the hammer on Monday...
16-NOV-2009: New generation embraces vinyl's spin
Even early on a gray, drizzly October afternoon, several customers could be found browsing at
Mississippi Records in Portland, Ore., pawing through the bins of the cramped 650-square-foot store,
drawn by the elusive and resurgent mystique of the shop's exclusive product: new and used vinyl LPs.
"When we started, it was 'one man's trash is another man's gold' -- LPs were cheaper and more available," says Eric
Isaacson, owner of the six-year-old store and partner in the vinyl-only Mississippi Records label. "Nowadays it
seems like the allure is about wanting something more tangible. The digital medium has run its course…The
(vinyl) ritual has become important...
16-NOV-2009: The Vinyl Revival
Vinyl records have long been considered a dinosaur in the modern music world, an ancient relic of our parents and
grandparents’ memories. In this day and age where even CDs are slowly being phased out and forgotten, it would seem
there would be little hope for vinyl in a culture that values portability and ease when it comes to technology.
But the world of vinyl is undergoing a revival that is saving the format from total extinction. Nielsen Soundscan data
shows that vinyl record sales topped two million units last week alone, a roughly 37 percent improvement from 2008
sales. Sales are on target to reach their highest mark since 1991, with genres like alternative and classic rock
selling the most...
11-NOV-2009: De laatste der Mohikanen (2): platenzaken in Nederland (Concerto, Amsterdam)
In 1955 begonnen met één winkel, is Concerto aan de Utrechtsestraat in Amsterdam een oude rot in het vak. Aanvankelijk
verkocht oprichter Gijs Molenaar alleen muziekinstrumenten. Wel vulde hij dat al snel aan met de verhuur van
platen en platenspelers. Wie vandaag de dag langs de huisnummers 52 tot 60 loopt herkent het bescheiden
winkeltje niet meer terug: Concerto is uitgegroeid tot een vijf panden vullende speciaalzaak.
Een begrip in Amsterdam...
11-NOV-2009: Against All Odds, Vinyl Sales Still on the Rise
Earlier this year, we reported that according to Nielsen SoundScan, vinyl album sales in 2008 reached an all-time
high of 1.88 million (that is, since Nielsen started keeping track in 1990). 2008's mark was nearly double 2007's of
990,000, proving that the medium is rapidly bucking the industry's greater trend toward digital. But according
to a just-released news brief from Nielsen, 2009's figures are on pace to smash 2008's -- sales to date just
broke the 2 million mark, compared to 1.5 million at the same time last year. That means if the trend continues,
which it almost certainly will, we'll be looking at well over 2.5 million units sold by the end of the year...
03-NOV-2009: De laatste der Mohikanen: platenzaken in Nederland (De Waterput, Bergen op Zoom)
Het gaat niet goed met platenzaken. Concurrentie van downloads, al dan niet legaal, internetwinkels en grote
ketens maakt dat de echte specialist een uitstervend ras is. Daarom gaat 3VOOR12 langs bij de oude rotten in
het vak, platenzaken die het waard zijn om een stukje voor om te rijden. Hoe gaat het met deze connaisseurs?
Hebben zij het echt zo moeilijk? Of is er licht aan het einde van de tunnel? We openen met een jubilaris:
De Waterput in Bergen Op Zoom...
21-OCT-2009: Vinyl: Let's get back in the groove
In an unprepossessing industrial estate on the fringes of west London, the fight back of a much-loved
music format is being plotted.
Based in Hayes – handy for Heathrow Airport – the Vinyl Factory pressing plant is taking on the relentless
rise of downloads and streaming services. Rather than mass producing vinyl, as in its heyday, the premises
offer a bespoke service for discerning customers, one helping to carve a niche for vinyl as a desirable,
collectable artefact...
12-OKT-2009: Vinyl begint aan zoveelste jeugd
Music On Vinyl is de naam van een nieuw muzieklabel dat vanuit Nederland de Europese markt wil veroveren.
Vernoemd naar de vinylfabriek in Haarlem, gespecialiseerd in 'high-quality-vinyl'. De kenner weet
dan dat het om 180 gram gaat.
Volgende week (19 oktober) komt het label met de eerste 'worp' LP's. Zestien klassiekers, allen afkomstig
uit de kluizen van Sony. Ironisch genoeg is dat de platenmaatschappij die de fabriek in Haarlem enkele
jaren geleden van de hand deed. Het paste niet meer bij de core-business, luidde het toen. Inmiddels is
'Haarlem' de grootste vinylfabriek van Europa...
24-SEP-2009: Vinyl making a comeback
Don’t prepare any obituaries for record stores just yet. Downloads may still be king of music
sales, but store owners in Missoula say that people are dusting off the old turntable and paying for vinyl.
For John Fleming, owner of Ear Candy Music on Higgins, vinyl sales have gone up 10 to 15 percent
from last year. Ear Candy has been a vinyl store since it opened in 1997, Fleming said, so he’s
always had customers who prefer it, but lately, it’s starting to emerge as a popular attraction
instead of a medium with only a few faithful followers...
02-SEP-2009: Vinyl: Not just for audiophiles?
Vinyl is back, big time, but the fact is most folks, probably close to 99 percent
of the under 40-set, haven't heard records.
For them, music is about portability and vinyl is a stay-at-home deal. Vinyl has more
of a hands-on work ethic: you've got to cue the tonearm, lower the "needle," and when
the side's over, turn it over or play another LP. Digital requires almost nothing from
you; no wonder it's dominated the music scene for the last couple of decades....
26-AUG-2009: Best Buy to sell vinyl records?
The sale of vinyl records is on the rise. But why would anyone want to buy something that can’t
be easily popped into your car stereo, or placed in your computer to burn to your iPod? Well,
apparently, people don’t care about those things, or they’re finding ways to transfer their
vinyl collection to a digital format, and the numbers are there to prove it. According to
Nielsen SoundScan, vinyl LP sales reached 1.88 million units in 2008 — an 89 percent
increase from 2007.
Best Buy is smart, and is jumping right into vinyl sales. According to a New York Post
article, Best Buy is the third largest music retailer, after Apple’s iTunes and Wal-Mart.
Best Buy tested the vinyl sales at 100 of its stores nationwide, and the results proved to be successful...
18-AUG-2009: Marktaandeel van vinyl stijgt weer
Sinds de introductie van cd`s en daarna mp3 bestanden is de verkoop van vinyl extreem gedaald, maar
het `zwarte goud` verovert plots weer marktaandeel. Volgens GfK Retail and Technology is de verkoop van
langspeelplaten in de eerste vijf maanden van dit jaar, ten opzichte van dezelfde periode in 2008,
toegenomen met 147,6%. De afzet bedroeg circa 13.000 stuks. De omzet nam toe met 269% en kwam uit op 218.600 euro.
Het marktaandeel van vinyl in de totale afzet van geluiddragers stijgt van 0,08% naar 0,2%, en gemeten in
omzet van 0,07% naar 0,3%...
21-JUL-2009: Vinyl record sales spinning upward
Warren Gassaway found his first record player in the closet of his high school library at the end of
his senior year. He said he liked vinyl records because they were a cheap way to listen to old music,
“plus they are kind of cool to look at.”
Gassaway, Neodesha junior, is not the only one who thinks so.
According to two articles published by Rollingstone.com in June of 2008 and January of 2009, Nielsen
SoundScan reports showed that vinyl record sales increased 85.8 percent between 2006 and 2007 and 89
percent between 2007 and 2008. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, figures released in the U.S.
in early 2009 showed that sales of vinyl records nearly doubled in 2008, with 1.88 million sold —
up from 1 million in 2007...
10-JUL-2009: As music industry declines, vinyl LPs get another turn
Everywhere you turn, traditional media are dying.
Yet against all odds, a cumbersome, fussy and pricey method of consuming recorded music isn’t just
surviving — it's thriving. Vinyl LPs, as has been breathlessly touted for months, are surprisingly
resurgent in the midst of this analog twilight and the ascent of portable, digital technology.
Looking at the most complete sales data available (for 2008), the sales of vinyl LPs jumped an eye-popping
89 percent, from 990,000 units sold to 1.88 million units sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan’s year-end report...
02-JUL-2009: SPINNING AGAIN: Newly pressed vinyl records making a comeback
To oldsters, and not-quite-oldsters, it's like seeing an old friend you had thought to be long dead.
Vinyl LPs, in all their shrink-wrapped newness, in cardboard sleeves bearing artwork visible without a
magnifying glass and liner notes that don't look like the small print on a mortgage contract, sitting,
right out there in the open, on the racks of your neighborhood mass-market retailer.
Just like they used to, so many years ago. Vinyl records -- newly pressed ones, not vintage or
pre-owned albums -- are making a comeback. A small comeback, a minor comeback., but a comeback nonetheless.
According to the Recording Industry Association of America -- the trade group whose members include
record manufacturers -- about 2.9 million LPs and EPs were shipped in 2008...
22-JUN-2009: De Week van het Vinyl
Van 22 t/m 26 juni: De Week van het Vinyl bij 3v12 Radio en Met Michiel. Wij zijn op zoek naar mooie verhalen
over vinyl...Win met jouw verhaal een echte platenspeler!
Sinds de opkomst van de cd, in 1985, is de vinylpaat enigszins uit de schappen van de platenzaak verdwenen. Want de cd
was minder vergankelijk, de kwaliteit van de audio is hoger en tja, hij neemt ook nog minder ruimte in beslag. Er
werden een tijdlang steeds minder vinyltjes geperst en ook niet alle nieuwe releases verschenen nog automatisch
op vinyl. Veel dj's schakelden over naar cd en zelfs mp3...
19-JUN-2009: Needle points north on vinyl sales
Over the past year, the increase in stories about the Return of Vinyl have mirrored vinyl sales
themselves. This is likely because the old record is a rare area of discernible growth in music retail, and
these days people will run with anything on the rise. CD sales have fallen about 45 percent since 2000, but
vinyl is moving in the opposite direction, albeit at a less sharp angle.
According to a recent Los Angeles Times report, more than 1 million vinyl albums sold through the first five
months of 2009, which puts the format on target to easily exceed its 2008 figure of 1.88 million, according to
Nielsen SoundScan. That figure is often hitched with the killjoy notation that it nevertheless makes up less
than 1 percent of all music sales in the country; Nickelback, for instance, sells that many CDs in a month
or two...
13-JUN-2009: The vinyl countdown
The hunt for bargains and hidden gems turns obsessive at a Dutch record fair.
The Mega Record and CD Fair is the biggest one in Europe: three days of LP sales in the gigantic Jaarbeurs
hall in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
English pop theorist Jon Savage wrote: “It is so overwhelming that you have to engage some kind of philosophy, if
not some kind of spiritual disengagement in order not to get swamped by the sheer immensity of what is offered
there. Only then can you be calm about the opportunities missed, the bargains snaffled, and the expensive must-haves
that turn out to be dogs (the deep gouge you somehow missed).”...
11-JUN-2009: Vinyl sales to hit another high point in 2009
The resurgent vinyl market isn't showing any signs of slowing down. In fact, recent figures released by Nielsen
SoundScan indicate that overall U.S. vinyl sales will once again set a benchmark in 2009, with sales up 50%
through the first five months of the year.
SoundScan predicts vinyl sales will reach 2.8 million units in 2009, up from 1.9 million in 2008, a record
since SoundScan began tracking sales data in 1991. Already in 2009, vinyl sales have topped 1 million. At
this point last year, vinyl sales stood at 701,000 copies. To be fair, the number is still tiny compared
to overall album sales...
03-JUN-2009: The Vinyl Revival and the Resurrection of Sound
It’s all over the news- from countless newspaper features (including a write-ups in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today
and other major publications), numerous online articles, and even the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. It’s the vinyl
record revival and more importantly, the resurrection of analog sound.
Yes, vinyl records, left for dead with the advent of the ‘digital age’ are selling again. In fact, in 2008, it's
reported that 1.88 million vinyl albums were purchased, which is the highest number since Nielsen SoundScan began
tracking LP sales in 1991...
14-MAY-2009: The unlikely rebirth of analog in a digital world
Brett Schenning sits cross-legged on the wood floor in his living room, a healthy grin splayed across his face.
In a slightly different setting, his longish goatee, slim figure and at-peace disposition could get him confused
with an enlightenment-seeking yogi as we talk about one of his most intense passions.
The 30-year-old Flagstaff local carefully removes a record from its sleeve, methodically places it on his
turntable, hits play and makes a couple runs over its grooves with a static brush. He then takes the album
cover (Calexico and Iron and Wine’s In the Reins) and places it in a display stand next to the stereo. Hundreds
of new and old records, each sheathed in plastic covering and stored in milk-crate shelving, line the floor of
his Flagstaff apartment. Box sets, rarities, limited pressings—nearly every genre from modern to classic rock,
to blues, to classical, to jazz is represented in Schenning’s impressive collection (Tom Waits’ Mule Variations,
the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magik and Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” have all had recent spins). ..
13-MAY-2009: Resurgence in vinyl helps record store in recession
It’s lunchtime on a typical weekday and Reckless Records downtown is packed. Dave Richardson, a 26-year-old legal
clerk, has stopped in on his break to shop for LPs, those 12-inch, non-biodegradable vinyl discs that have been
made obsolete many times over, most recently by MP3s.
Why would anybody pay for vinyl when there’s so much free digital music on the Internet? Why opt for a format
that hardly fits in a backpack when the iPod can put up to 20,000 songs in a back pocket?
“I like the idea of owning a piece of physical media,” Richardson said...
08-MEI-2009: Verkoop van vinyl in de lift
U dacht dat vinyl iets van het verleden was? In Amerika overweegt Best Buy, aldaar de derde grootste verkoper
van muziek na iTunes en Walmart, om in hun winkels plaats te voorzien voor vinyl nadat gebleken is in verschillende
testcases dat dat misschien meer toekomst biedt dan CD's.
De verkoop van vinyl blijkt namelijk in de lift te zitten: de jaarlijkse verkoop er van steeg vorig
jaar met maar liefst 89%...
27-APR-2009: Vinyl comes 'round again
People of a certain age — certainly no younger than their mid-40s — will recall the impact that a single vinyl
record could have on their lives. Their formative, high school lives, generally. "Alice Cooper's School's Out
with the panties was pretty cool," Tom Kohn says, the thought accompanied by the sigh of a 51-year-old
man recalling a long-lost girlfriend.
A girlfriend that you later brought to a party, then forgot to take home. Or sold at a yard sale. And
haven't thought about in years as you acquired newer, more sophisticated loves...
27-APR-2009: Vinyl Album Sales Increase 89% in 2008
Integrators may want to consider adding turntables to their offerings again. According to Nielsen SoundScan, sales
of vinyl LPs reached 1.88 million units last year. That's more than double from just two years ago and up
89 percent from 2007.
According to the L.A. Times, the trend has led to several new record stores opening in the L.A. area.
Moreover, some of the albums have price tags as high as $100. The L.A. Times says the record stores
are thriving because of collectors and casual audiences...
23-APR-2009: Showing off my vinyl
Maybe it was the onset of winter. Or perhaps it had something to do with World Record Store Day on
Saturday. Then again, if I am totally honest, I'd have to say the reason I sat down last weekend to start
taking the plastic covers off my records was inspired by seeing how good a mate's vinyl collection looked
sitting on wooden shelves in just their cardboard sleeves.
Don't laugh. I know you're laughing. I don't care.
I still have a few more records to get through, but so far I'm pleased with how my new-look record collection
aesthetic is going...
20-APR-2009: Vinyl: the new, old black
Saturday was Moscow’s Hempfest, day two of the University of Idaho’s Mom’s Weekend and Iran’s Army Day, but
it was also Record Store Day — an international celebration of independent record stores. It will shock
no one to declare in this column record sales are down, or bands that were once niche now reach
Billboard’s Top 15 (as The Decemberists did earlier this month with their new album, “The Hazards
of Love,” on Capitol Records).
But these trends do not take place in a vacuum. Exactly counter to the decline in CD sales and music
sales overall is an increase in sales of gramophone records, or vinyl, or wax or whatever you want
to call those impractical 12” discs...
16-APR-2009: As CD sale falter, vinyl sees resurgence
Bobby Strobeck is thumbing through vinyl records at End of an Ear, a record store that is walking distance from
his house in South Austin. He has just struck gold: an original U.S. mono pressing of his favorite Beatles
album, Revolver.
The corners of the cover are bent, but he forgives. Strobeck slides the record out, handling it as if it
were his baby. After a trip to the cash register, the record will have a new home in Strobeck’s growing collection.
This year, End of an Ear’s vinyl record sales are up 50 to 80 percent a month compared to last year.
The phenomenon doesn’t stop at this little record store that could, and it does not end in Austin.
According to the Recording Industry Association of America, vinyl began making a national comeback in 2007...
15-APR-2009: Record Store Day: April 18, 2009
The stench of death hangs heavy in the air among the old guard of the music industry, a nauseating signal
of inevitable, impending doom. While Reznor, Del, Radiohead and the like push the evolutionary envelope and
lead by example, serving as pioneering forces in the New Industry Order, most major labels are still
clinging to their antiquated, nearly-obsolete playbooks, heads in the sand and lawyers on the prowl,
hoping Gene Simmons can pull them out of the fire...
15-APR-2009: The return of vinyl
The compact disc is out. It’s ugly, fragile and its music comes wrapped, sealed in a plastic prison,
where its shiny, reflective neon coating waits to blind your eyes. The CD is a symbol of the ‘90s.
According to Nielsen Soundscan, CD sales fell from 553.4 million in 2006 to 360.6 million in 2008, while
MP3 sales grew from 32.6 million to 65.8 million during the same period.
Surprisingly, while the CD dwindles on the endangered list, the vinyl record has returned on the
radar. Vinyl sales rose 89 percent from 990,000 in 2007 to 1.88 million in 2008, according to Nielsen.
Rolling Stone reports that the sale of turntables rebounded from 275,000 in 2006 to nearly half a million in 2007...
07-APR-2009: Vinyl Comes Around Again
The new trend in music is actually nothing new at all.
Music stores report a rising interest in vinyl.
"The response has been overwhelming," said Patrick Quimby, manager of Burlington Records. The Bank Street
store opened its doors last week following the success of its sister store in Montpelier.
"I get a great response from record collectors and buyers, that have both been looking for a place like this
to come every day and look through the stacks," Quimby said, "or to sell some of the things that are
collecting dust in the attic."...
23-MRT-2009: Teruggedraaid: de liefde voor de lp herontdekt
Deze maand bestaat de cd dertig jaar. En het mp3’tje viert dit jaar zijn vijftiende verjaardag. Redacteur
Stefan Dölcken feest niet mee. Hij heeft het helemaal gehad met de kleine plastic onderzetters en niksige
downloads. Hij kocht een nieuwe platenspeler en herontdekte zijn oude liefde: de lp...
23-MRT-2009: As LP sales climb, musicians are happy to help the vinyl revival
When assembling his new triple album, Joel Plaskett forced himself to show a bit of restraint.
He wanted to include 30 songs, but trimmed the release to 27 because of a seemingly strange concern: he was
worried the sound quality would suffer on vinyl.
"Vinyl doesn't sound good over 40 minutes so you have to keep it brief," the Halifax rocker said during a recent
visit to Toronto. "That's why I cut it to 27 songs, because I wanted the vinyl to sound good. If you go beyond
that, the sound quality deteriorates." Worrying about LPs might seem odd in 2009, but Plaskett is just one of
many musicians happy to accommodate the recent vinyl revival...
18-MRT-2009: Topartiesten kiezen voor vinyl
Trots toont Ton Vermeulen de platenhoes van de band U2. In de fraai uitgevoerde hoes zit het handelsmerk van
de grootste elpeefabriek ter wereld, een vers geperste vinylschijf.
De befaamde muziekdrager bestaat inmiddels zestig jaar en overleeft al het digitale geweld. Dat weten de
veertig medewerkers en directeur Ton Vermeulen als geen ander. Hun bedrijf, Record Industry, gevestigd aan de
Nijverheidsweg in de Waarderpolder, liet vorig jaar vier miljoen vinlyplaten van de persen komen...
16-MRT-2009: Steeds meer muziekliefhebbers verlangen naar vinyl
Steeds meer muziekliefhebbers verlangen naar vinyl. Opvallend is dat het niet alleen een nieuwe hobby
betreft van babyboomers, maar dat juist een groeiende groep jongeren de hoescultuur omhelst. Volgens
de muziekindustrie vormen LP`s maar 1% van de markt. Uit een onderzoek onder HBO-studenten komt echter
naar voren dat liefst 20% van de studenten regelmatig vinyl koopt...
12-MRT-2009: Smiths rarities get vinyl release
British independent record shops are to release a limited collection of records by bands like The
Smiths and New Order. More than 50 shops in places like Preston, Glasgow, Newcastle and Leeds, are
holding events to celebrate World Record Store Day.
The global event is to mark the role of independent shops in local communities...
10-MRT-2009: LP revival: Fact or fantasy?
I'm not sure why, but there's a never-ending stream of articles cheering on vinyl's comeback. I guess
if it's a slow news day editors can't resist plugging in yet another story about booming LP sales, and
they always claim something along the lines of "Kids are digging the grooves, they've seen the light,
and now crave analog sound!" Puh-leeze! Don't get me wrong, I wish it was true. Maybe in some alternative
universe vinyl is flying off the shelves, kids are ditching their iPods and buying turntables...
09-MRT-2009: First direct to vinyl recording made in 30 years
Last night I was very privileged to attend a live to vinyl recording at Metropolis Studios in
London by Duke Special. This was arranged as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations of the
vinyl 7 inch format, and hasn't been done since Thelma Houston recorded 'I've Got the Music
in Me' over 30 years ago. A small, select crowd gathered behind the sound engineers
in the control room to watch and listen to Duke Special and his band (Phil and Paul
Wilkinson, Ben Castle, and Jools Maxwell) and two backing singers run through four
tracks and then do the live takes...
06-MRT-2009: For some, vinyl records are the best way to listen to the music
"There are people who are stepping back and trying to reconnect (to vinyl records)," said vinyl man
Cory Nyberg of Rahway. "Something has been missing in life and it's the old turntable and the way you'd
bring a vinyl record home." Check the numbers. There were 1.9 million new vinyl albums sold last year,
a figure up nearly 90 percent over the previous year, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Groups like the
Beastie Boys, Coldplay, Radiohead and Metallica are releasing new works and old favorites on vinyl...
01-MRT-2009: Comeback voor vinyl?
Goed nieuws voor de vinylfanaten: in het maartnummer van National Geographic Magazine voorspelt
Ton Vermeulen, directeur van Record Industry, dat er wel degelijk een toekomst is voor vinyl. In
tegenstelling tot de cd en mp3, die volgens hem zullen verdwijnen en verouderen.
Record Industry in Haarlem is de grootste grammofoonplatenfabrikant van Europa; het bedrijf perste het
afgelopen jaar miljoenen platen. Vermeulen vertelt National Geographic dat grote bands als U2, Oasis
en Coldplay nog steeds de weg naar vinyl weten te vinden. De dance-industrie behoort volgens hem
ook tot de grote afnemers...
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