With the Second Advent of digital transcription and streaming service of process , the physical object that for decennary store and played medicine could functionally be considered obsolete . But as theBBC report , a newfangled ICM Unlimited poll suggest that the net might really be driving vinyl group phonograph record sale .
In the survey of UK adult , 45 percentage of vinyl radical consumers said they heed to an album on a streaming service like SoundCloud or Spotify before purchase the record . While that might be safe news for sales , it does n’t really meant those album are getting diddle : 48 percent of those who had purchase vinyl in the last month report that it had n’t gotten any spins yet . one-half of the consumer considered themselves “ collectors . ”
Fifty - two percentage of responder tell they own and apply a turntable , while 41 percent said they own one but do n’t use it . Seven pct of surveyed vinyl consumers say they do n’t even own a turntable . Of those polled , the high percentage of vinyl radical buyers were in the 25 to 34 age range , and the gloomy were in the 55 to 64 range , a slice of data that runs contrary to what many might consider the standard vinyl - buying demographic .
vinyl group sales are up in both the UK and U.S.,Pitchfork reports , hitting a 21 - year high in the UK in 2015 . That trend seems to be go forward in2016 , perhaps bolstered by effort likeRecord Store Day . Still , ICM also report that most of medicine sales agreement go on online ( 73 percent ) , most commonly on Amazon and iTunes .
Andrew Wiseman , school principal of ICM Unlimited , tell apart the BBC : " It is still the compositor’s case that less than 1 in 10 citizenry are buying vinyl group , and we should n’t draw a blank that it ’s still a comparatively little part of the mart . "
If you ’re a lapse vinyl radical gatherer who ’s regard picking up the habit again , consider going through that old stash — itmight be deserving quite a lotthese days .
