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Qrates Adds Cassettes to Its Indie Vinyl Production Platform, Making It a One-Stop-Shop for Artists Looking To Sell

December 9, 2021

Photo Credit: Qrates As demand for physical releases continues to grow, vinyl crowdfunding pioneers Qrates look towards cassettes as the next frontier in independent revenue building. The following article c... Read More...

Record Store Day Smashes Its Own One-Day Record – Nearly 750,000 LPs Sold

Daniel Sanchez

May 1, 2018

Thanks to independent record stores, Record Store Day 2018 was a massive success. Nielsen Music has released its report on Record Store Day 2018. Held on April 21st, the 11th annual edition yielded a whoppi... Read More...

Is the Price of Vinyl Going Too High?

Daniel Sanchez

February 15, 2018

Is the vinyl industry at risk of pricing itself out of existence? In its Year in Report 2017, researchers at BuzzAngle Music noted that streaming music consumption surged in the US and Canada. Physical and ... Read More...

Sales of Cassette Tapes Have Quietly Grown 136.1% In the Past Year

Lennon Cihak

January 9, 2018

photo: InspiredImages (CC 0) Vinyl records aren't the only media format on the rise. Over the past few years, the classic cassette tape has been growing in popularity. Oh so quietly. The numbers aren't h... Read More...

The Best-Selling Vinyl Record of 2017 Was Released 50 Years Ago

Daniel Sanchez

October 4, 2017

Vinyl records just gained another 3.1 percent. Thanks in part to a little band from the 60s. Last year, sales in the US grew 25.9% to 7.2 million units. In the UK, sales rose 53% to 3.2 million units, the ... Read More...

Extremely Rare Prince Records Are Getting Re-Released

Daniel Sanchez

February 10, 2017

@DrGarcia (CC by 2.0) Rhino Records is now re-releasing rare Prince vinyl records. Today, Rhino Records released replica issues of four 12” singles by Prince. They’re now available for purchase. The songs ar... Read More...

Vinyl Records Sales Outstrip Digital Sales for the First Time Ever

Paul Resnikoff

December 7, 2016

Sales of vinyl records have been growing for ten years straight. Now, they're outstripping digital music sales in the UK. The vinyl record comeback is going into overdrive this holiday season. Now, sales o... Read More...

Three of Drake's albums are finally going hard-pressed

Three More Drake Albums Are Finally Going Vinyl

Daniel Sanchez

September 21, 2016

Drake image by Hail Merry, licensed under Creative Commons Attribition 2.0 Generic (CC by 2.0) Why aren't more Drake albums on wax? Now, the artist is finally embracing vinyl records. Whether vinyl sales ar... Read More...

Is It Over? Sales of Vinyl Records Down 9.1% In 2016…

Paul Resnikoff

September 20, 2016

Are vinyl records slipping in 2016? Fresh data from the RIAA shows a 9.1% drop during this first half of the year, at least for new product shipments in the United States. Sales of vinyl records have been b... Read More...

The Classic Technics 1200 Turntable Is Finally Back (A Complete Guide)

Paul Resnikoff

September 1, 2016

Hardcore vinyl fans paid thousands of dollars for a limited run. Now, production is ramping on the the classic Technics SL-1200 (or 'Technics 1200' for short). Last year, Panasonic shocked the vinyl communi... Read More...

48% Of People Who Buy Vinyl Don’t Even Listen To It, Study Finds

Charlotte Hassan

April 14, 2016

A large percentage of vinyl isn't even played. 48% of people who actually buy vinyl don't even listen to the records, according to just-released stats. But this gets even crazier: of the 48%, 41% have a turnt... Read More...

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