Photo Credit: Victrola Vinyl sales in the US and UK have reached record heights during the holiday season. New numbers from Nielsen show a record 1.842 million LPs were sold in the week leading up to December 24. That’s the largest week for the vinyl format since Nielsen started electronically tracking music sales in the […]
Photo Credit: Jace & Afsoon Vinyl record sales reached their highest levels since 1991 during the week following Black Friday, according to newly released figures from Nielsen/MRC Data. Between Friday, November 27th, and Thursday, December 3rd, vinyl record sales experienced a 56 percent year-over-year boost, per MRC, with customers having purchased some 1.253 million units […]
14 years after the closure of its famed retail locations, Tower Records has triumphantly returned – once again as an online store. Tower Records officials recently confirmed the news on social media, and their all-encompassing webstore is live presently. Some 500,000 items, including merchandise (branded t-shirts, hats, stickers, etc.), CDs, vinyl records, and more, are […]
Photo Credit: Agnieszka Kowalczyk Bandcamp sales top $20 million as the site flourishes during the pandemic. That’s mostly thanks to its commitment to supporting its artists. The online music retail platform sells .mp3 downloads, vinyl records, CDs, cassettes, and even merchandise. Bandcamp only collects a 15% revenue share from all its sales – that’s less […]
Drift Records’ Rupert Morrison – with help from his daughter – prepares online orders received on June 20th. Though the first of three planned Record Store Day 2020 legs won’t arrive for two months yet, UK-based music retailers enjoyed more than $1.24 million (£1 million) in one-day sales on Saturday, June 20th. The substantial sum […]
Record Mart owner Jesse Moskowitz. Manhattan’s oldest record store, Record Mart, is permanently closing its doors. Record Mart recently confirmed the unfortunate news on Facebook, writing: “Sad to say it is the end of era!!” Outside of that brief statement, the famed Times Square subway station record shop hasn’t addressed its closure on the internet, […]
Photo Credit: Kevin laminto Although states across America are reopening their economies following lockdown measures stemming from the coronavirus crisis, many independent record stores are being forced to permanently close their doors. It’s difficult to pinpoint the precise depth of the troubling trend, but there’s no denying that indie record stores have been hit especially […]
(photo: Clay Banks) As part of its plan to gradually lift COVID-19 restrictions, California is allowing record stores to reopen. However, government officials have laid out bolstered sanitization protocols and health-oriented guidelines for businessowners, their employees, and customers. Businessowners are directed to these measures through California’s “Resilience Roadmap” webpage. Per the entry, the state has […]
Bleak news from Seattle’s Bop Street Records, which is now closing its doors because of COVID-19 shutdowns. The Los Angeles Lakers, a storied basketball franchise worth more than $4.4 billion, recently scored a $4.6 million ‘small business’ Paycheck Protection Loan from the federal government. Millions were also given to Tender Greens, Shake Shack, and even […]
After hiring approximately 175,000 new workers to handle the many orders being placed by self-quarantining customers, Amazon has announced that it will continue fulfilling nonessential item purchases this week. About one month ago, Digital Music News was the first to report that Amazon had suspended warehouse shipments and the distribution of nonessential goods, including vinyl […]