David Bowie’s Blackstar takes early lead on Official Albums Chart as news of his death breaks: The iconic singer is also set to dominate this week’s chart following the news of his death…Early sales indicators suggest that Bowie is also set to make multiple entries on this week’s chart as fans remember the singer’s iconic works.
Almanac: The 45 RPM record: “Listen, compare, and you, too, will agree that RCA Victor’s 45 RPM record is the finest and best ever made,” said one record company promo. Not everyone agreed — including the folks at arch-rival Columbia Records, which was promoting a new record of its own, which played at 33 1/3rd rpm. Said Columbia’s chairman: “We are unable to fathom the purpose of the records revolving at 45 RPM.”
Captured Tracks’ New Side Business, Sideman Records, Plans to Stock The World with Used Vinyl: Mike Sniper—whose first indie label Captured Tracks signed instant stars like Wild Nothing, Beach Fossils and Mac DeMarco when Sniper started the label out of Academy Records’ basement in 2008—is obsessed with used vinyl. If he’s not conducting business at his now sizable Omnian Music Group offices in Bushwick (the umbrella label group he created in 2014 to house the labels of his many and diverse tastes), Sniper is probably trying to get his hands on old music.
How Adele helped vinyl turn the tables: Sales of vinyl records up 500% in just three years: Just three years ago even music industry insiders were dismissing the vinyl revolution. The surprise growth has come from sales of new releases by mainstream artists coupled with reissues of old favourites.
Belizean inventor, Andre Gray, launches new invention for 2016: Noted Belizean inventor Andre Gray—the man who is credited for the invention of mobile ringtones and ring-backs as well as the iBelizean social media site—is “turning the tables again” with the introduction of three world-class vinyl record formats: Microgrooves HD, Microgrooves Digital and Microgrooves Green T vinyl record formats nomenclature, launched exactly at 12:00 a.m. on Friday, January 1, 2016, eastern standard time, said a press release issued by his publicist this week.
Vinyl records making a comeback? They never went away, says busy shop owner and DJ Jim: Busy record shop owner Jim Penistan has 10,000 singles and albums on display in his Lincolnshire store and a private collection of hundreds more. And he agrees with the claim that vinyl’s back – although he’d actually dispute that records ever really went away.
