vinyl records in the UK this year are the highest since the early ’90s, new data has revealed.End-of-year figures released by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) show that sales have soared despite two national coronavirus lockdowns, with vinyl sales growing for the 13th year running.The new figures reveal that nearly one in five (18%) of all albums purchased across 2020 were vinyl, with 4.8 million LPs being purchased.
The new numbers are 10% up on 2019’s figures, and the highest since the Britpop boom of the early 1990s.Campaigns such as LoveRecordStores, Record Store Day and National Album Day also helped rally sales for independent record shops and specialist chains.Geoff Taylor, chief executive of BPI, said: “In a year when all our.
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