Top Vinyl Sales 2017

Sales of vinyl records are at their highest level since 1991 reports the bpi with 4 1 vinyl albums sold in the uk in 2017.

Top vinyl sales 2017.

Further vinyl album sales were driven by an array of titles not just a handful of hot sellers. But the biggest selling vinyl album of 2017 so far was originally released 50 years ago. Vinyl 12 singles sales grew 4 350 percent to 89 000 for the week compared to just. Vinyl had a renaissance at retail by experiencing sales growth for the 12th consecutive year comprising 14 of all physical album sales.

The news comes as the record labels association the bpi revealed that sales of vinyl were up 26 8 a tenth consecutive year of growth with 4 1 million purchased in 2017 compared to 205 000 in. 14 of the top 20 albums this year were reissues. In total 77 different titles each sold more than 20 000 copies on vinyl lp in 2017 as compared to. The vinyl revival continued in 2017 and people clearly needed more beatles records for their turntables because the band took the top two spots on the year end sales chart for the resurgent.

Pepper s lonely hearts club band. The top selling vinyl lp of the year was the re release of the beatles sgt. That said here are the ten hottest vinyl records of 2017 according to discogs. Vinyl records just scored an all time sales record.

Nielsen music s mid year album charts has revealed that vinyl album sales have continued to grow up 2 from 6 22 million to 6 36 million in the usa in the first six months of 2017. Yesterday nielsen music released its q3 music industry insights for the nine month period ending september 28th 2017. Abby road the beatles 7. Vinyl now accounts for roughly 3 of all music consumed including digital.

Led zeppelin iv led zeppelin 8. An impressive 4 1 vinyl albums were sold in the uk last year. Of course we are a super small yet fun and funky record store so our vinyl record sales don t count much towards the ultimate numbers for 2017. 14 of the top selling albums of the year were reissues with amy winehouse s back to black making the top 5 for the third year in a row.

2017 was another landmark year for vinyl with record sales peaking at their highest level since 1991 reports the bpi.