In the first six months of this year, 19.2 million vinyl albums were sold, while CDs sold 18.9 million. This follows from data published by the analytical company MRC Data.
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Vinyl has been slowly returning to the scene in recent years. In 2020, according to the Association of the American Recording Industry, sales of records in the United States exceeded CD sales for the first time in 34 years. The trend of growing interest continues. The number of long-lasting (LP) vinyl records sold increased by 108 percent in six months.
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The best-selling vinyl music albums in the first half were Evermore Taylor Swift, Harry Styles’ Fine Line, Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid MAAD City and When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? singer Billie Eilish.
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The growing interest in vinyls comes at a time when the music industry is struggling to keep pace with demand due to production outages caused by a pandemic. In this case, MRC Data drew attention to Ariana Grande’s album Position, which has been available on streaming services since last October 30, but it did not appear on the record until the beginning of April this year.
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The first week that the vinyl record appeared, sales of this album increased by 1,614 percent. A total of 32,000 vinyl albums were sold in the first week, the third highest weekly vinyl album sale since 1991, when MRC Data began tracking the figure. Evermore had the highest sales with weekly sales in excess of 100,000 albums, followed by Jack White’s Lazaretto with weekly sales of 40,000 in 2014, according to CNBC.
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