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The Weeknd’s My Dear Melancholy, dropped five years ago today, and to mark the occasion, the artist dropped new merch and a vinyl edition of the record. “One of my favorites,” he said on Twitter. In addition to the already sold-out vinyl, there’s multiple t-shirts, crewnecks, and hoodies with either the album cover design or […]
Vinyl album sales were still on the rise in 2022. According to Luminate, which started monitoring music sales in 1991, vinyl sales increased by 4.2 percent in 2022. While still having upward momentum, that’s a sharp drop from 2020 and 2021, perhaps signaling less demand or supply issues. Vinyl sales in 2020 saw a 46.2 […]
Cardi B was all smiles while displaying Beyoncé’s handwritten message to her on social media. “Look what Beyoncé sent me, read it bitch,” Cardi said while holding a vinyl copy of Bey’s recently-released album Renaissance. Cardi then joked about her plans to protect the vinyl in a manner that’ll electrocute anyone who even gets near the prized possession. “It’s so beautiful, so lovely,” […]
Logic is denying taking shots at TDE’s Reason on his recent single “Vinyl Days.” The DJ Premier-produced song, which dropped last month as the title track from Logic’s upcoming project, sees the Maryland native repeatedly rap the word “reason” in his opening verse. “Come on, homie, listen to the voice of reason/Yeah, you talk a lot […]
Vinyl just had its best sales week in three decades. Americans bought 2.11 million copies of vinyl records in the week ending on Dec. 23, marking the biggest sales week for vinyls since MRC Data began tracking music sales back in 1991, Billboard reports. It’s a 45% increase from the week prior (1.46 million), suggesting the spike can be […]
Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album Sour has earned a fifth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 following its vinyl LP release last week. Of the 133,000 equivalent album units amassed by Sour, 84,000 consisted of album sales, a 1,201 percent increase from the previous week. That figure was almost entirely driven by the 76,000 made off vinyl purchases. […]
Dave Chappelle has released a vinyl edition of a 8:46—his hard-hitting stand-up special in which he addresses the police killing of George Floyd and racial injustice in America. The legendary comedian teamed up with Third Man Records to drop a limited run of red, black, and green vinyl LPs exclusively available at ThirdManStore.com, as well as the label’s Nashville and Detroit stores. The […]
Vinyl made a huge comeback this year, with Black Friday deals helping physical record sales see their highest peak in some time. Now Billboard reports that vinyl had its best sales week ever, with 1.842 million LPs sold in the U.S. during the week prior to Christmas, ending on Dec. 24. That’s a historic high for vinyl since […]
There’s a lot to pore over in the RIAA‘s newly released revenue report, including the fact that streaming is driving continued growth for the U.S. recorded music industry. In a statement announcing the revenue report for 2019, RIAA chairman and CEO Mitch Glazier noted that this growth isn’t simply happening on its own, but is […]
Vinyl record sales have seen consistent growth in recent years, and are set to outsell CDs for the first time since 1986. In 2019, the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) mid-year report indicated that CD sales were plummeting three times as fast as vinyl sales were increasing. In February, the RIAA reported that vinyl sales […]
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