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UK vinyl and cassette sales surge in 2020

29/12/2020

UK vinyl and cassette sales surge in 2020 with vinyl sales worth twice as much as music video streaming platforms, such as YouTube, despite the tens of billions of videos watched every year. New figures released by the BPI based on provisional Official Charts Company data for the year show that alongside continued growth in streaming, which now accounts for around 80% of UK music consumption, sales of vinyl LPs and audio cassettes surged ahead in 2020. […]

UK cassette sales are at their highest in 15 years

07/08/2019

UK cassette sales are at their highest in 15 years according to a blog posting by the Official Charts Company which has also published The Official Top 20 best-selling cassettes in the UK since 2010 and The Official Top 20 best-selling cassettes in the UK of 2019 so far. Cassette sales continue to grow in 2019 with sales at their highest since 2004. In common with the vinyl revival, music buyers are steadily returning to […]