The Coming Homerun of Vinyl Records

An article on the internet tells us about the strike one of Compact discs and nearly earning a strike three once this year will surface to be the vinyl year. Vinyl Records are believe to be itching up to have a home run. Will this be vinyls time?


A music-buying public enamoured with digital downloads may be abandoning the compact disc in droves, but one physical medium is staging a tiny comeback.

Amid otherwise gloomy music sales numbers released by Nielsen Co. this week, vinyl record sales doubled compared with the year before.

The number of long-play vinyl records sold in the United States rose to 1.88 million units, compared with 990,000 the year before.

While vinyl records represent just a fraction of total music sales, their resurgence could not come at a better time for another under-fire segment of the music industry, the independent record store.


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