Year Of First Vinyl Record

This year vinyl sales have outpaced cd sales in the united states for the first time since the 1980s.

Year of first vinyl record.

At first the discs were commonly made from shellac with earlier records having a fine abrasive. In 1930 rca victor launched the first commercially available vinyl long playing record marketed as program transcription discs. These revolutionary discs were designed for playback at 33 rpm and pressed on a 12 diameter flexible plastic disc. This year vinyl sales have outpaced cd sales in the united states for the first time since the 1980s.

The days of vinyl records being a nostalgic relic of the past are long gone. Americans seem to be listening to more vinyl records amid the pandemic. A phonograph record also known as a gramophone record especially in british english or simply a record is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove. Vinyl sales in the uk reached 2 8 million in 2012.

Us vinyl sales in 2017 reached 15 6 million and 16 7 million for 2018. For the first time since the 1980s vinyl record sales have overtaken cds in the u s growing by 3 6 from the first half of 2019 to the first half of 2020 according to the recording industry. The days of vinyl records being a nostalgic relic of the past are long gone. The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc.

The lp was soon confronted by the 45 a 7 inch 180 mm diameter fine grooved vinyl record playing at 45 rpm. Vinyl records have been delighting listeners and collectors since the 1900s. Last year in the united states vinyl sales were over 1 000 higher than a decade prior.