Why Are Vinyl Records Popular Again

As albums have become more popular among collectors in the 2000s limited releases have made records cooler than ever with colored and split color vinyl.

Why are vinyl records popular again.

The analogue format made of polyvinyl chloride had been the main vehicle for the commercial distribution of pop music from the 1950s until the 1980s and 1990s when they were largely replaced by the compact disc cd. Another point in vinyl s favor. Nearly 6 million units sold in just in 2013. Most vinyl albums are black but they don t have to be pigmented materials can make albums red blue pink white orange or practically any other color.

Vinyl records are popular again and here s how they re made. Vinyl records are so popular that sony plans to make them again. Seems like we ve all become like her in the last decade. Vinyl records have become more popular over the last decade.

Etienne laurent european pressphoto agency. Dancing and singing and squealing just being in love with our vinyl records again in fact in 2019 vinyl is poised to outsell cds for the first time since 1986 according to riaa. Kevin cornell on april 19 2016. The vinyl revival is the renewed interest and increased sales of vinyl records or gramophone records that has been taking place in the western world since about 2007.

Even as physical cd sales decline people are buying more vinyl than they have in decades. 6 reasons why vinyl is popular again. 26 of all physical albums sold in 2019 in u s.