After 35 years, vinyl records are making a comeback as they outsell CDs for the first time in 1987!
's Cactus Music, with people flipping through the thousands of old and new albums, looking for music they might like to own. Cody Ortiz says he's working on building his record collection, "I love the idea of having a physical representation of the music I love."The Recording Industry Association of America’s latest year-end report finds vinyl sold more units than CDs in the U.S. last year. With more streaming options, and fewer retailers selling CDs, vinyl was primed for this.
"I think what you see is there's a return of the 'bookshelf' mentality," explains Cactus Music owner Quinn Bishop, "People stream everything. They might stream the tracks, but the stuff that's really great...if it's a statement from the artist like a new album, they have to own the whole thing." As a new generation of music lovers discovers the experience of putting an album on a turntable and setting the needle down, it seems more than nostalgia.
The RIAA report says vinyl accounted for 70% of all physical music sales, worth $1.2 billion, last year. While that's still just a fraction of streaming music revenue, it may be enough to lure more album manufacturers, which largely left the marketplace, to return and feed the new demand.
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