Vinyl Record Sales Surges And Music Events Go Viral, Thanks To Rising Popularity Of Online Music Streaming: Interestingly while online music stream has contributed to the downfall of CD sales, it has boosted that of the old-style, old-school vinyl records that can only be played on a turntable. The BBC report notes that these vinyl buyers are avid record collectors and music aficionados who still cherish the traditional way of playing music because of the way it seems to bring them back to a more culturally refined, classier era.
Iggy Pop, Kim Gordon and Ian Rankin pick tracks for new compilation celebrating vinyl culture: Charlatans frontman and vinyl warrior Tim Burgess has announced a new compilation called Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco, to coincide with his book release of the same name. A celebration of vinyl culture, the book follows a digging road trip undertaken by Tim Burgess tracking down records recommended by the likes of Ian Rankin, Iggy Pop, Tony Wilson, Daniel Miller, Kim Gordon and more. The forthcoming compilation collects those timeless recommendations across double vinyl.
Do You Love Music? Silicon Valley Doesn’t: The song “Drag Me Down” by One Direction appeared on YouTube 2,700 times after the service was asked to take down unlicensed copies.These 2,700 pirated uploads allowed Google to continue profiting from advertising while the artists got nothing. The problem has gotten so bad that, in 2015, vinyl record sales generated more income for music creators than the billions of music streams on YouTube and its competitors.
British artists profit more from vinyl sales than YouTube licensing: Vinyl sales have surged for the eighth year on the trot in the UK on the back of a hipster fuelled nostalgia wave with more than 2m of the outsized discs sold in the UK in 2015, the highest figure since 1994. This dovetails with the growing global popularity of British artists who now account for one in six of all record sales internationally – a record high.
Music and YouTube – an uneasy marriage: The British music industry had a great year in 2015. Adele’s 25 was one of the best-selling albums of all-time and she, along with other British artists, had a record share of the global music market. More music was consumed in all sorts of ways, from streaming video and audio to good old-fashioned vinyl. There was just one problem – money earned from sales and streaming actually fell. And the industry knows who it blames – YouTube.
Vinyl revival: More buyers into records: Enjoying records isn’t new to Tim Townsend, owner of Black Circle Records in Lake Geneva. Now an increasing number of music fans are joining Townsend in discovering the joys of vinyl. In 2015, 12 million records were sold — a 20 percent increase — while sales of CDs decrease year after year, according to Forbes. Townsend started his business about four years ago.
