scottheisel Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 From Billboard: For the fifth consecutive year, more vinyl albums were sold than in any other year since SoundScan launched in 1991. In 2012, 4.55 million vinyl LPs were sold -- up 18% compared to 2011's then-record haul of 3.87 million. 67% of all vinyl albums sold in 2012 were purchased at an independent music store (the same share as in 2011). 76% of the vinyl LPs sold in 2012 were a rock album. The year's top selling LP was Jack White's "Blunderbuss" with 34,000 vinyl sets sold. In second place was the Beatles' "Abbey Road" with 30,000. While overall LP sales were up, the top seller of 2012 sold less than the top seller of 2011. Last year, the biggest vinyl album was "Abbey Road" with 41,000. http://www.billboard.com/news/adele-s-21-2012-s-best-selling-album-gotye-1008067382.story jayteamanis 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daegor Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 queue the babble of comments regarding soundscan not including most independent label releases (correct, but repeated oh so often) hudsoncomplex 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thom Yorkified Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Awesome. Good news Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmhmm Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Great news! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clh2285 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derby625 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 76% was rock how vague is that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ac3ebemo Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I wonder how long YOY increases are going to last? I would say most average people still don't even know new stuff is pressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casinonightzone Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I wonder how long YOY increases are going to last? I would say most average people still don't even know new stuff is pressed. based on the number of people who respond with "they still make those?" when i tell them I collect vinyl, i'd certainly agree clh2285 and derrickcook19941 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youmightbewrong Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I wonder how long YOY increases are going to last? I would say most average people still don't even know new stuff is pressed. True that. Every day that I tell someone that I collect vinyl, 99% of the replies are "Do you have any Beatles?". When I tell them that the bulk of my collection is stuff that is pressed today and in recent years, they don't even know what to say and I get the whole "They still press vinyl?" question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicondevil Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Such cool news. Records have solidified a future! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clh2285 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I love vinyl !!!!!!!!!!!! noodle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 True that. Every day that I tell someone that I collect vinyl, 99% of the replies are "Do you have any Beatles?". When I tell them that the bulk of my collection is stuff that is pressed today and in recent years, they don't even know what to say and I get the whole "They still press vinyl?" question. My mom refused to buy records for me for Christmas a few years ago because she didn't want to pay for "dusty old records". I took her to the record store a few months later and she was amazed that they still make them. She hasn't had a problem giving me records as gifts since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ac3ebemo Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Every time I go to the post office with records to mail I get into a conversation about how they still make records. Every time they then proceed to tell me about all the Elvis records they have that must be worth a fortune since they are so old. Also the UPS guy asked me last week if I was a DJ. Fun times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarirec Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 "SMART SHOPPERS BUY VINYL!" Screeching Weasel's words, which I wholeheartedly agree with... http://www.discogs.com/Screeching-Weasel-Major-Label-Debut/release/1708679 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottheisel Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 Honestly, given the amount of mailorder-only labels out there that are VC-related (not to mention the myriad other genres of music VC doesn't really dive that deep into, like metal/EDM/etc.), this number is probably at least a half-million shy of the actual U.S. total. daegor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konk Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I wonder how Aeroplane did this year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raidenradio Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Hopefully this means more Beatles represses in 2013. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
companyinkrecs Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Hopefully this means more pressing plants open in 2013. How is there not some bazillionaire music fanatic willing to invest in manufacturing new state of the art presses? Seems like a fairly wise investment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebiglebowski Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Hopefully this means more pressing plants open in 2013. How is there not some bazillionaire music fanatic willing to invest in manufacturing new state of the art presses? Seems like a fairly wise investment. Who knows. When was the last pressing plant opened? Are the majority of these using equipment that was created before 1980, paid off with record pressings of millions, and only updated over the years rather than built from scratch? I dunno, just speculating. It seems plausible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troymess Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I really wish I would've grabbed that Beatles box set when the sales were going on over Xmas...those numbers just reminded me of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
companyinkrecs Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Who knows. When was the last pressing plant opened? Are the majority of these using equipment that was created before 1980, paid off with record pressings of millions, and only updated over the years rather than built from scratch? I dunno, just speculating. It seems plausible. That's the case as far as I am aware. No new equipment is being manufactured and in fact competing plants are buying any available equipment and in one example that I am aware of they are keeping them dormant just to avoid competition. While I'm entirely generalizing and have no clue what an undertaking this would be, you'd think that the demand is there and that some existing plants would welcome an upgrade to their ancient machinery anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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