American music market forecast that analog record sales will rise by more than 25% compared with the previous year

ByMatthias Rhomberg

I am engaged in music commerce "NARM CompanyAccording to a presentation in Los Angeles in early May, sales in analog records in 2011 are expected to increase by more than 25% year on year.

Analog record does not seem to be sold very much as it is no longer to be seen in shops and other places after being deprived of leading role in CD in Japan, but what kind of theory is the reason for sales increase Is it there?

Details of American record markets are from the following.Vinyl Projected to Grow More Than 25 Percent In 2011 ... - Digital Music News

The Vinyl Comeback, In Historical Perspective ... - Digital Music News

This is a graph showing sales of records in the United States in recent years. The unit of the chart is one million dollars (about 80.93 million yen).


Looking at the graph, although sales have been increasing with jiwiwa from 1993 to 2000, when CDs are already in full use, it has peaked in 2000 and then gradually got up and down while falling gently It says.


There is no particular change from 2006 to 2007, but from 2008 it can be seen that record sales are increasing rapidly. It will reach 3.6 million dollars (about 290 million yen) in 2011, and it is expected to grow by 28.6% compared to the previous year. Nonetheless, the percentage of records in the industry-wide sales such as CDs is only 1.6%.


This is a graph showing the history of the number of records shipped in the United States. By the way, in 1982, the world's first CD player appeared and in 1986 there was a history that CD had overtaken LP on the basis of the number of sold items, and even when looking at graphs, CDs started to popularize in the late 1980s The number started to decrease, and it seems that it is almost not shipped when entering the 90's range. And here also you can see that the number of shipments has increased slightly since 2008.


The background of the sales growth of records that began in 2008 is that listeners use music download / distribution sites such as the iTunes Music Store when purchasing music, and take in music from a CD and listen to them on a computer It is thought that the number of cases has increased.

Some people say that listening to music with files such as MP3 is becoming mainstream makes it impossible to attach to CDs, "After purchasing a CD, you take in contents into the computer and then do not touch the CD at all" Should Even soAn analog record that can not easily be imported to a PC attracts attention as an existence that satisfies ownership desire to "wish to have music"That is to say, coupled with that huge jacket that is powerful is that some music lovers are purchasing.

In addition, recentlyA code that can download MP3 is included in a new analog recordStyles are in fashion, and it may be one of the reasons for purchasing a record that there is a choice of "MP3 when listening casually, record when listening carefully".