The vinyl record industry has enjoyed a resurrection largely driven by Gen Z.
Hasn’t vinyl been back for over a decade? I know marketer defined generations aren’t super meaningful, but I hate how blatantly the narratives they’re trying aren’t internally consistent
Is this adjusted for inflation? Unit count might be easier to understand the scale. Not to deny the trend, I am just skeptical that 2022 was anywhere near half the sales volume of 1979 for vinyl.
Yeah, I definitely collected records starting in my mid-teens throughout my 20s (I’m in my 30s now). I’d say it went from having to go to weird record shows populated mostly by old old dudes, to record stores popping up everywhere, to having records in Target sometime in the mid 2010s.
the first vinyl revival I remember started in the mid 90s and it seems like it has basically been growing since
Purely anecdotally, I’m Gen Z and I went to high school with a guy who was big into vinyls, and have never otherwise met someone with that interest. So it tracks in my limited experience
I remember it being big in hipster culture, and just double checking but every year from 2008 to 2013 was the biggest sales year for vinyl on record.
It was still a thing is certain music genres. Metal genres especially, like Black Metal. I can’t remember which band it was but a few years ago they released their whole decades long discography on cassette tape. Just a big box of tapes of black metal so you could get your trve kvlt on.
i think the industry boomed around lockdown, heard a couple people talk about them in HS in 2021 and so far in uni i’ve been to 3 dorms with record players (mostly those shitty suitcase ones). sometimes i see a bunch of vinyls hanging on someone’s wall so i think some rich kids just get them for decoration 💀
personally i find them expensive as hell so i go for more CDs depending on the genre/sound
It is 1982 and the compact disc is released commercially
It is 1988 and the compact disc has overtaken vinyl in popularity, however it has a dedicated userbase which gives it sort of a revival
It is right now and I was going to do a whole bit paraphrasing The Watchmen, but I’m just going to link you this instead https://inphaseaudio.co.uk/blogs/news/vinyl-revival-a-brief-timeline
