There is a saying that everything old is new again.
Humans are famous for having the new shiny object syndrome where we forget about the current things we love for the new better option.
Vinyl records were unquestionably a victim of this.
Back in the late 1980's the much more shiny chrome coloured compact disc (CD) came out and all but wiped the comparatively massive dark coloured vinyl records off the map.
Record stores became CD stores and the majority of people seemingly forgot records even existed.
But then something surprising and completely unexpected happened.
Vinyl records made a comeback.
Check out the following facts…
- Vinyl record sales have grown each year for the last sixteen years
- Vinyl records now account for almost forty percent of US album sales.
- Vinyl sales jumped almost fifty percent last year alone.
So yeah, by any measure vinyl records growth has been incredible.
So what was the cause of this comeback? Why all the "vinyl love"?
There are a number of things.
First, even though it's a digital world, people have started to clue into the fact that they don’t actually own a music collection like they used to because when you get all your music on a streaming service you’re just renting it.
Another top of that, when you own an album, you actually listen to all the tracks. This lets you fall in love with songs you probably won’t even hear on streaming services, since most people just use streaming services for hits.
(Announcer) – Anything else?
(Kawartha) – Sound. Most people agree that vinyl offers a warmer sound digital cannot replicate. It's been said that to hear music the way the artist intended it to be heard, you need to hear it on vinyl.