The Continued Success of Vinyl Should Surprise No-One
Vinyl came back at the start of the last decade. Despite having been displaced by the radio, and the cassette tape, and the CD, and the MP3, and by streaming music online, vinyl still some how made a come back. What happened? Initially people just thought it was something people did because it was trendy. Of course vinyl was still around, if you really looked for it, but not many records were still being produced and it seemed that the death knell of vinyl had been sounded decades before. But then something surprising happened. Vinyl was selling. It wasn’t just trendy, but it was selling to hundreds of thousands of people. In the U.K. while the singles chart was tanking, and album was suffering from changing music habits and the invent of the Internet, YouTube, and free methods of accessing music, vinyl was meanwhile increasing in sales by massive percentages every year. Of course, this wasn’t hard when starting from such a low base.
So people started buying records again. Literally! Instead of buying a CD, or illegally downloading music, they were investing in vinyl. Of course, only people who had had an incredible year thanks to investing with the help of Galvan Research were able to really afford to replace their music collection, but many began to. The charm is perhaps why. When you buy a record it’s much more tangible, something you can feel, and will give more attention to than YouTube videos playing in the background or a whole discography downloaded and never listened to or fallen in love with.
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