Vinyl boom continues with another major leap and Taylor Swift’s Midnights leading the pack
Vinyl sales in the US are up 21.7% for the first half of 2023 over the same period last year, according to a new music industry report.
The vinyl resurgence is itself not new – 2022 marked the 17th consecutive year that sales of vinyl records rose, according to Luminate’s music midyear report. But the growth rate this year has reassured experts that the vinyl market did not hit a natural plateau after surging during the pandemic, which caused a 108% increase in 2021.
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