2024 Vinyl Sales Figures

MylesBAstor · Friday at 6:05 PM

And the quality of the records today--regardless of where they're pressed--blows chunks. This is from a diehard analog person who buys a large number of reissues and new releases. Yes, even the so called audiophile quality pressing plants. I hold my breath every time I open a new album and put it on the platter. Warps that make the LPs unplayable. An inability to remotely center the spindle hole. All that adds up to a tracking torture test and wear and unnecessary wear and tear on the suspension of our expensive cartridges!

Say what you maybe about tapes, I've never returned a defective one yet. In fact, I rarely returned an album until the last 3 years; now it's got to be 50% or more. For example, I purchased 3 copies of an audiophile release and not one was remotely flat or pressed on center. It appears because of the back order situation at the records pressing plants that they're just foisting whatever crap they churn out on us. So reminiscent of the garbage that passed for LPs in the 70s.

In short, this lack of Q/C is going to kill vinyl faster than digital recordings.

https://www.riaa.com/2024-year-end-music-industry-revenue-report-riaa/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMABhZGlkAAAGD0ShW-4BHRc-11oNrMCzhX6vvnFix2Cn1I-5xrb6-h0fIgghA1kFfLyzQOEvLA9tYQ_aem_Nf895fRtAgDG9U_bsHM4 uw
https://www.riaa.com/2024-year-end-...A1kFfLyzQOEvLA9tYQ_aem_Nf895fRtAgDG9U_bsHM4uw

rangda · Monday at 9:02 PM

MylesBAstor said:
And the quality of the records today--regardless of where they're pressed--blows chunks. This is from a diehard analog person who buys a large number of reissues and new releases. Yes, even the so called audiophile quality pressing plants. I hold my breath every time I open a new album and put it on the platter. Warps that make the LPs unplayable. An inability to remotely center the spindle hole. All that adds up to a tracking torture test and wear and unnecessary wear and tear on the suspension of our expensive cartridges!

Say what you maybe about tapes, I've never returned a defective one yet. In fact, I rarely returned an album until the last 3 years; now it's got to be 50% or more. For example, I purchased 3 copies of an audiophile release and not one was remotely flat or pressed on center. It appears because of the back order situation at the records pressing plants that they're just foisting whatever crap they churn out on us. So reminiscent of the garbage that passed for LPs in the 70s.https://www.riaa.com/2024-year-end-...A1kFfLyzQOEvLA9tYQ_aem_Nf895fRtAgDG9U_bsHM4uw

I buy a lot of new non-audiophile music on vinyl and product out of the shrink seems far worse than I remember in the 70s and 80s. GZ in particular, it’s a coin flip as to whether the record will have handling defects out of the shrink. I suspect quality stinks because it can. Returns don’t make it back to the labels so there is no incentive for quality.

2024 Vinyl Sales Figures

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