2017 Vinyl Sales

Further vinyl album sales were driven by an array of titles not just a handful of hot sellers.

2017 vinyl sales.

This impressive milestone has been untouched since the. In 2017 the cassette format is only available as a sales gimmick and the cd is on its last legs. 14 of the top selling albums of the year were reissues with amy winehouse s back to black making the top 5 for the third year in a row. Today when a record label releases a new or archived album on vinyl they do so to treat the record as a collector s item.

Sales of vinyl records are at their highest level since 1991 reports the bpi with 4 1 vinyl albums sold in the uk in 2017. 14 of the top 20 albums this year were reissues. In total 77 different titles each sold more than 20 000 copies on vinyl lp in 2017 as compared to. In 1985 you could buy an album on a cassette cd or record.

Vinyl records in 2017 are different from vinyl records in 1985. Sales of vinyl in 2016 reached a 25 year high as consumers young and old have once again embraced physical formats of music. Vinyl records are projected to sell 40 million units in 2017 with sales nearing the 1 billion benchmark for the first time this millennium.