How Vinyl Records Are Again Changing The Music Business
MP3 pirating and selling has put an enormous hurt on the music industry over the past ten years, and CD sales have declined because of it. Because of the digital flavor of downloads and CDs, people have come to value analogue sound more and more. Many artists want to put their music on vinyl to get more sales, and record companies are having a tough time denying it since they sell a lot of it.
In the early 1990s, the vinyl record market sold so little that companies considered ending production. Since CD sales were on the rise at the time, companies nearly phased vinyl out to clear the shelves. Though they had almost completely died off, vinyl records eventually made an impressive comeback. The younger generation of kids started looking at vinyl as a cool alternative around 2005, and vinyl's popularity began to flourish once again. Hearing music in its entirely high quality analogue form has become a curious luxury, specifically since most listen to MP3s. A couple years passed before this generation had adequate money to buy albums of their own.
Virtually doubling in sales by 2008, vinyls continued to increase in popularity. New artists are often asking for their music to be sold on vinyl, and companies are even remaking classic Rolling Stones vinyl records, too. Since most vinyl shoppers end up purchasing their music in both digital format for convenience and analogue format for audio quality, the suffering music industry could not be more happy. In 2011, almost twice the amount of vinyl that was sold in 2008, 3.9 million, has been sold through the third quarter of the year.
Apart from the younger generation, that is adopting the format because of its cool retro style, there are a few kinds of people that buy vinyl for different reasons. Exploring a fresh album is the biggest thing that the baby boomer generation likes about vinyl records. Since everyone loves experiencing their childhood over again, the Beatles vinyl album Abbey Road was the top selling record of 2010.
Since it is often regarded as the best medium to listen to, people that like high fidelity music turn to vinyl for the most true sound. A lot of people believe that the music sounds best before converted digitally, because most music was recorded to analogue tape before the year 2000. Even if it does not actually reproduce better, vinyl has a certain sound that is specific to it. Though it does not make sense on paper, hearing the digital copy alongside the vinyl album on a higher quality record player provides a very distinct difference in the quality of sound.
Whatever the reason, the comeback of vinyl records is a great thing for everyone. Besides allowing for people to hear lots of music in its original form, it allows a different way for the music industry to find the money for new artist investments once again.
In the early 1990s, the vinyl record market sold so little that companies considered ending production. Since CD sales were on the rise at the time, companies nearly phased vinyl out to clear the shelves. Though they had almost completely died off, vinyl records eventually made an impressive comeback. The younger generation of kids started looking at vinyl as a cool alternative around 2005, and vinyl's popularity began to flourish once again. Hearing music in its entirely high quality analogue form has become a curious luxury, specifically since most listen to MP3s. A couple years passed before this generation had adequate money to buy albums of their own.
Virtually doubling in sales by 2008, vinyls continued to increase in popularity. New artists are often asking for their music to be sold on vinyl, and companies are even remaking classic Rolling Stones vinyl records, too. Since most vinyl shoppers end up purchasing their music in both digital format for convenience and analogue format for audio quality, the suffering music industry could not be more happy. In 2011, almost twice the amount of vinyl that was sold in 2008, 3.9 million, has been sold through the third quarter of the year.
Apart from the younger generation, that is adopting the format because of its cool retro style, there are a few kinds of people that buy vinyl for different reasons. Exploring a fresh album is the biggest thing that the baby boomer generation likes about vinyl records. Since everyone loves experiencing their childhood over again, the Beatles vinyl album Abbey Road was the top selling record of 2010.
Since it is often regarded as the best medium to listen to, people that like high fidelity music turn to vinyl for the most true sound. A lot of people believe that the music sounds best before converted digitally, because most music was recorded to analogue tape before the year 2000. Even if it does not actually reproduce better, vinyl has a certain sound that is specific to it. Though it does not make sense on paper, hearing the digital copy alongside the vinyl album on a higher quality record player provides a very distinct difference in the quality of sound.
Whatever the reason, the comeback of vinyl records is a great thing for everyone. Besides allowing for people to hear lots of music in its original form, it allows a different way for the music industry to find the money for new artist investments once again.
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