Growth in vinyl sales since 2006

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...eppelin-8813113.html

Another good read Richard

I find it understandable the Classic slice of pie is so small these days but would have thought the Jazz portion would be far larger! ...Although these statistics do relate to Amazon sales and not overall buying trends.

Out of The top 20 vinyl best-sellers on Amazon uk since 1999 - I’ve purchased only 3

Debs

3 for me also Debs. 

All the Iron Maiden albums are picture discs and I doubt would ever be played let alone see a turntable.  

3 for me also.

Why do you find it understandable classical music fans don't buy vinyl any more? Maybe it's the same reason I don't buy vinyl (at least not for the last 20yrs or so).

Because so many classical music fans are far more purely into the music than the hard ware machinery needed to reproduce it, also the need to hear a piece of musik that lasts longer than 25 minutes without need to flip a LP.

About 40% of my vinyl collection is vinyl  classical all pre-owned and much in fab condition, a good investment imo, and often fantastic listening too.

Debs

Debs - do you mean 40% of your vinyl is classical? 

I would agree with your first point. Most of the music I buy is in the Jazz genre and I would say, although I like to own a good quality audio playback system, it's the music that comes first. Regarding your second point I'm not sure track length is an overriding reason. Classical music tends to consist of several movements which can fit on both sides of one LP or more. On average you only have to get up once to turn the disc over. I think the bottom line is CD playback can sound as good/or better than vinyl, it's much more convenient to use and we can get all those classic jazz albums tracks on one CD. These days all those CDs get ripped and then streamed to my music player. Not wishing to start another vinyl v. CD war but I don't understand why people still want to buy vinyl but if the demand is there then fine but vinyl sales are still pretty low compared to those declining CD sales..

Yup!

14 for me!

It seems the news about the vinyl resurgence has spread! Just back from Cheddar car boot sale and pretty much every other stall had a box of LPs and there were actually 2 or 3 stalls selling nothing but vinyl - never seen anything like this there before though I only go every few weeks.

The other thing that struck me was the pricing - previously £2 or so was the norm, now they are all individually labelled. I saw a slightly scruffy version of Surrealistic Pillow actually being bought for  £40 and most decent stuff was over a tenner.

The days of the boot sale bargain seem to be numbered