When vinyl sales in 2017 didn't grow much over 2016 - and the rate of growth from 2015 to 2016 itself was down - many had speculated, myself included, that we perhaps had reached "peak vinyl."
However, the mid-year United States numbers are available, and vinyl sales are up a whopping 19.2% over 2017, for the same time period. For the first two quarters of 2018, vinyl record sales represented 18.7% of physical album sales. That's now a significant percentage. I can't imagine many people thought 10 years ago that, in 2018, 1 out of every 5 physical albums sold would be a vinyl record (absent the onset of a Butlerian Jihad).
https://www.billboard.com/articles/c...rts-jack-white
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