{"id":7874,"date":"2016-12-08T09:16:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T17:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/?p=7874"},"modified":"2016-12-08T03:32:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T11:32:05","slug":"is-vinyl-really-more-popular-than-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/is-vinyl-really-more-popular-than-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Vinyl Really More Popular Than Digital?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7875\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7875\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7875\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/djtechtools.com_-1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: djtechtools.com\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/djtechtools.com_-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/djtechtools.com_-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/djtechtools.com_-1-530x298.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: djtechtools.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The latest news out of the UK is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/vinyl-might-be-here-to-stay\/\">vinyl sales<\/a> have hit \u00a32.4 million (just over US $3 million). Sales for digital downloads hit \u00a32.1 million (just over US $2.5 million).<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s going on? Do you think that more people are actually buying music in vinyl format rather than digital? If that&#8217;s true, then sales of turntables must be skyrocketing.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, the numbers only tell a small part of the story. The fact is that vinyl is typically a lot more expensive than a digital download.\u00a0<em>DJ Tech Tools<\/em> notes that &#8220;last week&#8217;s biggest selling vinyl was Kate Bush&#8217;s triple-disc live album\u00a0<em>Before The Dawn<\/em>, which retails at \u00a352. A download of the same recording is available for \u00a312.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think a lot of people buy vinyl as a collector&#8217;s item. They frame it for the cover art rather than spin it on a turntable. Here&#8217;s the other part of the story. Turntable sales are static.<\/p>\n<p>Do you buy vinyl for reasons other than to play it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">The latest news out of the UK is that vinyl sales have hit \u00a32.4 million (just over US $3 million). Sales for digital downloads hit \u00a32.1 million (just over US&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2214,2152,400,7,2203],"tags":[4312,4612,4611,3901],"views":1029,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7876,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions\/7876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}