Record Store Day’s September drop brings big gains for U.S. vinyl album sales. 📈
The annual Record Store Day holiday was originally scheduled for April 18, but, due to COVID-19 concerns and complications, was split into three separate drops on Aug. 26, Sept. 26 and Oct. 24.
All of the titles that were intended to be released on April 18 for Record Store Day were then spread across the drop dates. Those titles include unique color vinyl variants, unique one-off pressings, hard-to-find archival projects, and reissues of classic or niche albums.The Wall: Live in BerlinFollowing the second Record Store Day 2020 drop, industry-wide year-to-date vinyl album sales jumped past 15 million -- up 31.2% compared to the same point a year ago.
If vinyl album sales continue to keep up their weekly 2020 pace, they could hit new yearly highs – both in terms of total volume and share of the physical album market -- once 2020 wraps. , vinyl album sales grew to a new yearly high – 18.84 million sold. Further, in 2019, vinyl LP sales represented 25.6% of all physical album sales.All data is for the week ending Oct. 1 in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.Industry-wide physical album sales : 1.518 millioncompared to previous week. That’s the best week for CD album sales since the week ending May 7 .
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