Streaming services switch young music fans back on to the joys of vinyl as sales soar by 50 per cent in a year: Streaming services are encouraging young music fans to go out and buy vinyl LPs, as they discover the joy of owning a physical copy of their favourite artist. Research from the music industry suggests streaming music, on services such as Spotify, Deezer and Apple Music, has unexpectedly boosted sales of CDs and vinyl records.
Music man from Wrexham goes on record for indie stores: In a world where most record shops have folded, Alun has managed to navigate his way through the tricky times and is very much still standing. “We rebuilt and reconfigured the business, going back to basics, trying to identify who still bought music and rebuilding the whole collection around that.” The store caters now for people who “don’t want to go along the corporate line, older people, music collectors, people who are more touchy feely about music”.
Vinyl sales boom as young music fans move beyond online streaming: A poll for the record industry body, the BPI, and the Entertainment Retailers Association, suggests that the main reasons for young music streamers buying vinyl is the chance to own a permanent copy of the record, better sound quality, and the fact that more money ends up in the artist’s pocket.
CDs and vinyl given fresh life through ‘multi-channel’ music streamers, study finds: Are you a “multi-channeler” who discovers new music on streaming and then snaps up a vinyl copy of your new favourite artist? New research suggests that the traditional CD and vinyl formats can enjoy a peaceful co-existence with their digital successors instead of a zero-sum battle for the record industry’s future.
When Rock Was Banned in the Soviet Union, Teens Took to Bootlegged Recordings on X-Rays: As the Cold War picked up in the years after World War II, the Soviet Union clamped down on any music or art coming out of the West that officials deemed decadent or culturally corruptive. But despite the lockdown, a subculture of Soviet teens called the stilyagi were able to smuggle and share banned records by making their own out of old x-rays.
