Sales of vinyl records rose sharply in Britain

Rumors about the death of analog music and the undivided dominance of digital media were a bit exaggerated - BBC technical reviewer Dave Lee notes that over one million vinyl records have been sold in Britain over the past year.

Against the background of the fact that the Spotify streaming music service recently marked one billion auditions, such a number of sales of audio on vinyl media looks really insignificant, but the fact itself looks at least curious. The last time an active interest in records was noted 18 years ago, when the album of the group Oasis was the sales leader; It is interesting to note that even now the old guard sets the tone - Pink Floyd is at the top of the top list.

From a financial point of view, the situation is as follows: if a CD costs about £ 10, then a vinyl record is already 25. A vinyl record player on Amazon can be purchased for an average of $ 50, while an mp3 player can also be purchased for $ 15 if you wish . In general, experts now estimate this market at 20 million pounds, whereas 5 years ago the same indicator was only 3 million.

Interviewed BBC experts conditionally divide vinyl lovers into two separate groups. The first of them is a relatively age category, people who grew up on vinyl and store their music on records in their usual way, preferring to buy records, because in their time there were simply no other options for receiving them.
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The other group, on the contrary, is just young people (sometimes called “hipsters”) who feel the “impersonality” of digital music; they can probably be compared with people who prefer to read paper books, despite the available “reading rooms,” believing that nothing can replace a real book.

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