Vinyl Album Sales Hit A New High Over Christmas
December 29, 2020 6:16AM CST
- Everything old is new again in the music business, with U.S. vinyl sales hitting a record high over Christmas, according to Nielsen Music.
- More than 1.8 million LPs were sold in the week leading up to Christmas – the most since Nielsen began tracking album sales electronically back in 1991.
- Even better, more than 40 percent of those sales came from independent record stores – pretty impressive during a pandemic.
- Vinyl also outsold CDs by nearly 170,000 last week – the fourth time that’s happened in 2020.
- Do you still collect vinyl? Why has it made such a resurgence?
