HMV to open 15 stores in the Middle East: The high street music and entertainment chain is planning stores for Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and more
Tender Loving Empire Expands: “Portland’s beloved purveyor of music and miscellanea Tender Loving Empire is living up to its name with the announcement of a new retail location, the third store in the expanding Empire set to open on NW 23rd Avenue in August.”
Goodbye, Music Tuesday: Starting Today, Albums Come Out On Friday: “For more than 25 years, Tuesday has been the standard release day for new albums in America — a tradition Keith Caulfield, co-director of charts at Billboard, says had a lot to do with shipping in the pre-digital era.”
Vinyl record and wine shop brings flare to Sugar Land: “We wanted to bring something cool and hip to the suburbs,” says Paul Killingsworth, one of the managing partners of Vino & Vinyl, a wine and record shop in the Sugar Land and Missouri City area.
Massive Attack’s 3D has announced that he’ll be releasing two separate remixes of ‘The Right Stuff’ by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds on limited-edition vinyl… The 12-inch vinyl is set for release on 31 July through Battle Box…
Spin it Off? Taylor Swift Selling More Vinyl Than Anyone: “According to Nielsen Music’s 2015 US mid-year charts (for the period of December 29, 2014 to June 28, 2015), the “Shake it Off” hit-machine has seen vinyl sales of her 1989 album reach the 34,000 copies sold mark – that’s more than anyone else…”
Vinyl records are still riding that big comeback wave, sales up 38% in a year: Slow and steady and surface noise wins the race. “Also interesting is that Nielsen found that digital album sales were flat compared to last year, and digital track sales were down 10.4 percent. Unsurprisingly, CD sales were down 10 percent.”
