Talk:Vinyl revival

The importance of Hip Hop Djing and sample culture!

Why isn´t the importance of Djing and Sample Culture in Hip Hop mentioned here anywhere? In Hip Hop Vinyl never dissapeared! Hip Hoppers engaged in "Save the Vinyl" Movement when it was almost replaced by CDs in the 90s. Vinyl always was important to to turntablists and beatproducers. Through Hip Hop I personally came to buying my first Vinyl some years before the Revival. And many Hip Hop DJs and producers also have other music than Rap in their collection, like Soul, Funk, Jazz or every other Genre. Steffen AM 24.4.2022 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.179.66.112 (talk) 16:05, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

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Vinyl revival is a myth
"vinyl revival" is based on sales since year 1990 or so. But, in 1990 vinyl was almost dead. Look at this link. There is a graph going back to earlier days a page down or so.

https://www.vox.com/2015/1/27/7922989/music-sales-2014

It is easy to increase from almost nothing.

DnalorKarlsson (talk) 10:21, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
 * True, but the article acknowledges that vinyl represents only a very small proportion of overall music sales.JezGrove (talk) 23:35, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Role of music cassette tapes
The article as it currently (2017-10-09) makes no mention of the volume of music cassette tapes sold during the 1980s and into the early 1990s. One report suggests that for the period starting 1985 and ending ~1992, music cassettes were the dominant format in the U.K., and the Wikipedia page on the Compact Cassette cites two sources indicating that cassette tape sales overtook LP sales.

In short, the popularity of cassettes was having an impact on LP sales before the acceleration of CD sales. Further research is required to validate this, but this oversight in the article needs to be corrected. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mhmonkman (talk • contribs) 14:12, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Worldwide view of vinyl revival
So, as this wikipedia page has some problems and mostly focuses on the US and UK it does not provide a balanced and sane view of vinyl sales/revival worldwide.

Please help make this article better and provide a broader view of vinyl in the current times.

I've done my best to add 3 additional sales figures for my own country (that I could find), for which accurate data is relatively easy to get as the Dutch trade association of the entertainment industry, NVPI, publishes figures regularly and is verified by outside sources. But that's just the Netherlands.

We need additional information on the state of vinyl for other countries. Please help add this.

~ DaveFlash (talk) 8:19, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Name
Really, this should be called The Revinyval. AsmodeanUnderscore (talk) 16:46, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

2012 charts
Seems like we can delete the 2012 charts as they are obsolete data. There's nothing particularly special about 2012. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djk74 (talk • contribs) 21:47, 17 March 2021 (UTC)


 * RIAA revenue and units sold data updated to 2022. Full year 2023 data not yet available. Arahl1 (talk) 16:47, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Definition of music revenues
"In 2020 vinyl recordings accounted only for 5.1% ($619.6m) of total US music revenues and CDs accounted for 4% ($483.3m) of revenues. Digital and streaming formats accounted for the remainder of the $12.2 billion in US music revenues, with paid subscriptions accounting for 57.7% of total revenue at $7.0 Billion." I am confused. What is the definition of music revenue? For me, as a lay person, it should at least include concerts and probably sheet music. But these, which obviously had some income, are clearly excluded from the figures. Why? Kdammers (talk) 22:07, 12 January 2022 (UTC) There are also the minuscule sales of piano rolls, their electronic off-spring, and maybe still cassettes. Also, what about royalties for use in movies and elsewhere?Kdammers (talk) 22:12, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

One reson vinyl is back, is because digital has only 2 states, on or off, vinyl is analog and sound fade from one to another. much more smothly.
I forgot to mention the same, or nearly the same for tape. 2600:1700:3A99:C000:398F:49CE:A83F:BBA9 (talk) 03:51, 31 January 2023 (UTC)