Your Vinyl Collection

[SilverSurfer]

This thread is

As when I moved to where I am now I left 95% of my vinyl and 95% of my tapes (pre recorded,home recordings of various concerts,even reel to reel tapes etc ) behind in the loft.

[Prince_Vajda]

Originally Posted by SilverSurfer

This thread is

As when I moved to where I am now I left 95% of my vinyl and 95% of my tapes (pre recorded,home recordings of various concerts,even reel to reel tapes etc ) behind in the loft.

Don't be sentimental. All that old stuff only takes up shelf space anyway.



























Seriously now... I understand what you mean. So many memories left behind...

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Prince_Vajda

Don't be sentimental. All that old stuff only takes up shelf space anyway.

I agree.

Who needs vinyl, cd's and dvd's when you can have a ****ing pot plant, a porcelain bird and three books instead?

[SilverSurfer]

Originally Posted by Prince_Vajda

Seriously now... I understand what you mean. So many memories left behind...

Indeed and I only noticed a week AFTER we moved and it was too late to back and recover them,Around 30 boxes of Vinyl,40 boxes of cassettes (with rare content on them and highly unlikely to be released officially) I would say what I own now I would gladly swap for what I left behind.

[Demoncrat]

I bought a 7" single today.
Sex Gang Children - Mauritia Mayer (Clay Records)

Along with another singles box, the ones with the flap at the front and the carrying handle? Anyone remember them now?? £2.
So some fun at the weekend, sorting through my singles, basically if and when I ever get a new box, I just "air" out the collection that bit, giving me room reaally to add more I KNOW, but such is the life of the long distance record collector

[Susan Foreman]

This seems a good place to put this!

UK vinyl revenue set to overtake CDs for first time since 1987 / Planet Rock

"Revenue from vinyl record sales is set to overtake CDs for the first time since 1987, the British Phonographic Industry has announced.

Thanks to strong sales of albums including AC/DC’s ‘Power Up’, Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ and Queen’s ‘Greatest Hits’, vinyl revenues rose by a huge 30.5% in 2020 generating £86.5 million in revenue.

Campaigns such as LoveRecordStores, Record Store Day, National Album Day and HMV Vinyl Week all helped vinyl sales, while rising direct to consumer (D2C) sales of physical products also gave the format a boost.

In contrast, sales of compact discs fell by 18.5%, however the format still generated £115 million in revenue last year.

If sales of both vinyl and CDs continue at the current trajectory, the British Phonographic Industry predicts that vinyl will be the dominant physical format revenue-wise in 2021.

Geoff Taylor, Chief Executive BPI, BRIT Awards & Mercury Prize, said: “Vinyl’s exceptional performance despite retail lockdowns confirms its role as a long-term complement to music streaming. 2021 is likely to be the year in which revenues from LPs overtake those from CDs for the first time in well over three decades – since 1987.

“In addition to the immediacy and convenience of streaming, fans want to get closer to the artists they love by owning a tangible creation, and more and more of them are discovering how vinyl, or lovingly created CD box-sets, can enhance their experience of music.”

Sales of cassette also rose by 4.4% in 2020 with over 150,000 units shifted – the highest number in 17 years.

Despite the impressive vinyl and cassette figures, streaming is now the biggest money spinner for the industry. Revenues from streaming grew 15.4% to £736.5 million in 2020.

Overall, UK recorded music revenue rose by 3.8% in 2020 to reach £1.118 billion.

Geoff Taylor comments: “The lockdowns inevitably affected financial results in 2020 but, unlike other parts of our industry which were hit very hard, the seamless connectivity of streaming and the enduring love of vinyl meant that recorded music was relatively insulated from its worst effects and was still able to post growth.

“The ongoing increase in paid subscription streaming fuelled labels’ ability to continue investing in artists. The safe and rapid reopening of live venues is the music community’s critical first priority, but the resilience of recorded music demonstrates the important role it plays in people’s lives even in the midst of the COVID pandemic.”"

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The figures are a bit distorted since the AC/DC cd cost a tenner in Asda but the vinyl was double that.

I'd be more interested in actual units sold.

[Nordicdusk]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

The figures are a bit distorted since the AC/DC cd cost a tenner in Asda but the vinyl was double that.

I'd be more interested in actual units sold.

Would be a trillion euro industry if they went by how much we pay for vinyl here

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I notice this particular article doesn't even bother to mention the copies sold. 4.8 million vinyl compared to 16 million CDs.


I don't like this narrative that everyone's buying vinyl and the CD is going to die. There's room for both - and the music industry ought to be doing more to save the CD.

[Demoncrat]

Always with the scare tactics ....

I remember when Home Taping Is Killing Music was the crisis