While debates surrounding music streaming services, online downloads, physical purchases and torrents have been raging the past couple years, vinyl has been making a comeback in a big way. Avoiding what seemed like an imminent demise, vinyl purchases have increased more than sixfold from 2005 to 2013 in the United States, jumping from less than a million LPs purchased to 6.1 million according to data put together by Statista. In the UK and Germany, vinyl sales are at their highest since the late ’90s, resulting in $218 million global vinyl sales in 2013. Take a look at the chart by Statista, which demonstrates worldwide vinyl sales from 1997 to 2013.
You can read the rest of the story by Ryan Kristobak from The Huffington Post here
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