How Record Store Day Kickstarted the Vinyl Revival
How Record Store Day kickstarted the vinyl revival In 2008, only a tiny percentage of releases came out on vinyl and sales of vinyl accounted for just 0.3% of physical album sales. Fast forward to the present and almost all key releases come out on vinyl as well as the CD and digital formats. In 2017 vinyl accounted for 19% of physical album sales, making it the tenth consecutive year to witness a rise in the sales of the vinyl format. In 2008, £2.9 million was spent on vinyl in the UK. By 2017 the sum had risen to £88.7 million, according to the Official Chart Company. The digital generation has discovered the joy of owning vinyl and i t is no coincidence that the initial rise started following the first Record Store Day (in 2008 in the USA; 2009 in the UK) . Since then, s ales of vinyl in independent record shops have risen from 78,400 units in 2008 to 1,280,700 in 2017. And overall sales of vinyl records have increased five-fold since 2013 – from 831,000 units to...