And yet I have taken some solace in the idea of reverting to physical music formats during the Neil Young/Joni Mitchell contretemps with Joe Rogan and Spotify.
Pitchfork has also reported more anecdotal hints to a mild CD revival, while Discogs, the key resale market for music online, showed big leaps in the number of CDs sold over the past two years, with some younger fans gravitating to the format as well.Īll this, of course, doesn’t amount to a full-scale comeback of anything proof of a revival for CDs may come merely in the shape of comment pieces wondering if CDs are due a revival. And in the US, CD sales increased last year for the first time in 17 years, though this was almost entirely due to the Adele album. This would suggest the vital signs are not good for CDs, but buried within that report was a sliver of hope for the unloved disc: the decline in sales has slowed – well, OK, it’s not much, but it’s a start. Vinyl sales are now on course to overtake CD sales according to figures from the Entertainment Retailers Association.
Demand has even begun to outstrip supply, while UK sales last year were at the highest level in 30 years. All of these have combined to create a robust ongoing market for vinyl, as the increasing number of independent record shops in many towns and cities will attest to. But now interest in vinyl crosses several types: the serious crate-diggers seeking original pressings and obscure sounds the audiophiles and gearheads happy to drop cash on Klipsch speakers the casual buyer who likes to own a few records the lifestyle collector tastefully pairing a record with a bottle of natural wine. When vinyl seemed dead in the water in the 1990s, many ditched extensive collections and let record players slide into obsolescence. The vinyl revival has been much more widespread (and extensively documented). The tape resurgence seems a perennial staple of the music press, but it remains a going, if minor, concern.
Cassettes and vinyl have been revived to varying degrees.
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