Vinyl Sales Increase 52% To Reach 9.2 Million Units (copied form this page enjoythemusic/news/) Quality Record Pressings / Acoustic Sounds Vinyl LP Pressing Plant TourReports are coming in about the rise of vinyl sales in this world awash in digital audio. In fact last nights NBC Nightly News also reported on the rise of the vinyl LP. For you statisticians, vinyl LP sales are accounting for 6% of album sales! How big a gain is vinyl you ask? How does an eye-popping 52% increase in vinyl LP album sales in 2014 versus 2013, which was also a great year of sales increase. Nielsen SoundScan says that vinyl LP album sales reached an impressive 9.2 million units in 2014, which is the highest quantity sold since Nielsen SoundScan began keeping track in 1991. What is also quite interesting is that paid music album downloads decreased by 9%, with song downloads decreasing an eye-popping 12%, in 2014 as record labels struggle against streaming music services. Besides the low sound quality MP3 and most streaming music services provide, consumers are paying full price if they choose to purchase an album on MP3 format instead of the physical CD counterpart. Individual song sales decreased to 1.1 billion in 2014 versus 1.26 billion in 2013. Now is the time, or technically back in June 2013, to begin a new movement... which is why it is time for record labels to provide high quality, high resolution music downloads instead of the same compressed music anyone can stream virtually free of charge. See My Memo To The Industry, as originally envisioned by Enjoy the Musics Editor and Creative Director Steven R. Rochlin, that details a solid business plan to launch high resolution music to consumers back in June 2013 and why it was the right time to begin organizing such an endeavor. Unlike digitally-downloaded music, the physical vinyl LP format offers advantages including beautiful album art plus a variety of vinyl LP colors, instead of the normal black. Add to that, many creative types are using the album cover and insert as a way to then market APPs, which can turn the album cover into anything from a DJ controller or other items by using modern technology approaches to activate the cardboard. Before all you vinyl enthusiasts get all glowing with 9.2 million units sold in 2014, digital sales reached 106.5 million albums downloaded in 2014. Just trying to keep it real as future sales of high resolution digital music of at least 24-bit/88.1kHz could help become a bridge to the next wave of digital album sales, plus deliver sound quality far higher than MP3 and the decades old Red Book CD 16-bit/44.1kHz. Eventually, record labels could have recording studios all on a single 24-bit/192kHz as a minimum standard, with far higher resolution as technology progresses forward. Are you curious how a vinyl LP in made? If so, then see Enjoy the Musics exclusive video tour of Quality Record Pressings / Acoustic Sounds vinyl LP pressing plant.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:48:41 +0000
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