Gross sales of vinyl have surged by practically 15 per cent year-on-year for the primary 9 months of 2023, based on a brand new report.
The statistics have been collected from the BPI (through MusicWeek) and highlighted that from the start of the 12 months till the top of September, 3,952,262 vinyl LPs have been offered – roughly a 13.2 per cent enhance since 2022.
In response to the report, this enhance was even larger for the three months of the Q3 interval, which noticed 1,237,620 information offered within the vinyl format; a determine which is 15.1 per cent greater than the earlier 12 months.
Up to now, artists majorly accountable for the resurgence of vinyl gross sales embrace Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift, Blur and Kylie Minogue – all of which have launched new LPs because the begin of the 12 months.
Up to now, Lana Del Rey’s ‘Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Beneath Ocean Blvd’ stays the most important vinyl launch of the 12 months – with 33,568 copies offered on the format since its launch in March. That is adopted by Taylor Swift’s ‘Converse Now (Taylor’s Model)’, which was the biggest-selling vinyl launch of Q3, with 29,649 gross sales.
In third place is Britpop icons Blur, whose ninth studio album ‘The Ballad Of Darren’ has offered 26,894 copies, and Kylie Minogue’s ‘Stress’ isn’t too far behind, with 19,160 copies offered since its launch final month.
Different albums paving the best way in vinyl gross sales embrace Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Guts’, Wham!’s ‘The Singles: Echoes From The Edge Of Heaven’ and Lewis Capaldi‘s ‘Damaged By Need To Be Heavenly Despatched’.
What’s extra, this determine is anticipated to rise considerably for the rest of 2023, with albums from Take That (‘This Life’) and Taylor Swift (‘1989 (Taylor’s Model)’) nonetheless set for launch. One other artist set to make an enormous mark on the figures this 12 months is rock icons The Rolling Stones, who shall be sharing ‘Hackney Diamonds’ – their first new album of unique music in 18 years on October 20.
The quantity can also be set to be inflated with Black Friday – Report Retailer Day’s sister occasion – on the horizon (November 24). This can see restricted version vinyl editions launched for over 90 artists, together with Joni Mitchell, Prince, The Doorways and Put up Malone.
As reported by MusicWeek, CD gross sales for 2023 have dropped by 6.3 per cent year-on-year, and bodily gross sales as an entire are down by 0.5 per cent. Unsurprisingly, streaming continues to be the primary approach music is being consumed, making up 88.5 per cent of the market.
In different vinyl information, again in August it was reported that Scotland’s first-ever vinyl-pressing plant was underneath development – set to open later this 12 months.
Named Seabass Vinyl, is the family-run enterprise of David and Dominique Harvey, and is about to open its doorways in East Lothian, simply exterior Edinburgh, later this month.
