Thursday, 17 October 2013

Big growth in vinyl sales for 2013

Vinyl is back in fashion in the UK - and  the Official Charts Company and record label trade body the BPI have revealed that 2013 have now crossed the half million mark with the best sellers being:

Ten best selling vinyl releases of 2013... so far
1. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
2. Arctic Monkeys - AM
3. David Bowie - The Next Day
4. Boards Of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
5. Queens Of The Stone Age - Like Clockwork
6. Atoms For Peace - Amok
7. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
8. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
9. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
10 Black Sabbath - 13

Vinyl sales declined at the beginning of the 'noughties' but have seen a revival - here is a year by year chart of the units shifted:

2003 - 579,248
2004 - 453,254
2005 - 351,224
2006 - 250,926
2007 - 205,292
2008 - 208,526
2009 - 219,449
2010 - 234,471
2011 - 337,041
2012 - 388,768
2013 - 548,142 (so far)

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