Nielsen: Vinyl Sales Up In First Half

[dfergie]

New York – Streaming and vinyl were the U.S. music industry’s growth categories in the first half, while sales of CDs and music downloads were down, Nielsen Music found.
Here are some other first-half metrics uncovered by Nielsen:
CD sales: 56.6 million, down 10 percent.
LP/vinyl: 5.6 million, up 38.4 percent, to reach 10 percent of CD unit sales
Total albums (including digital albums, CD, cassette, and vinyl): 116.1 million, down 4 percent.

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[gadgtfreek]

Id have a turntable if I had somewhere to fit it.

 

[klang]

Got rid of my albums and turntable last year after I finally got them all transferred to digital.

 

[dfergie]

Need a new stylus for my Technics turntable, I do have one of those USB versions also, been awhile since I've sat and listened to my collection, about time to do again...