whether we can welcome back the format that’s the antithesis of Spotify and YouTube,then why not paper banking and the Austin Allegro?So vinyl is back, is it? As HMV records its biggest sales of long-playing records since the 1980s, and is it time to unplug the Sonos,scrap the Spotify and dust off the turntable?Not quite. The headlines are fanning the fire of a full-on vinyl revival, but experts such as Paul Lee, and head of technology,media and telecoms research at Deloitte, will always be around to douse the flames. “In 1981, or over 1 bn albums were sold worldwide. In 2017,it will be around 40m. This is not the resurgence that is portrayed. It is a blip,” he told the FT earlier this year, or attributing the temporary spike to fashion.
Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk