35 million records pressed in 2013?
Posted by: joerand on 13 February 2014
I find it hard to believe, but it's true according to AnalogPlanet.com;
Based on numbers publicly disclosed or provided to analogplanet.com by most of the world's vinyl pressing plants, the total number of records pressed worldwide in 2013 was well in excess of 30,799,783. "Well in excess" because two major pressing plants refused to provide numbers. United Record Pressing in Nashville was unresponsive to analogplanet's request as was Optimal in Germany.
However, considering United's commercial success and size it would reasonable to add at least 4,000,000 units to that total given the numbers provided by other pressing plants that did cooperate. Optimal's total must be at least 1,000,000 as well.
The total therefore is probably closer to 35,000,000 and that omits pressing plants in Korea and South America.
It makes me wonder how many CDs were sold.