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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
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Joe Svetlik

Don’t call it a comeback – vinyl is here to stay, according to one of the UK's biggest music distributors

Drew Hill, MD of Proper Music Distribution, stands with his arms crossed in front of a brick wall.

For many of us, vinyl never went away, but there's no denying that the format has seen renewed interest of late. Figures from the British Phonographic Institute (BPI) show a phenomenal 19.9 per cent rise in sales over the last year, which is staggering for a format many had long written off.

To make sense of this, we sat down with Drew Hill, the managing director of Proper Music Distribution (PMD), the UK's main physical music distributor of independent labels, to talk all things vinyl.

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