When you are on the hunt for a highly anticipated album on vinyl or for your favourite nostalgic listen, sustainability is unlikely to be the first thing on your mind. And that’s fair enough; getting your hands on new music is understandably more at the forefront (and we hope audio quality is in there, too.)
Sales for vinyl records in the UK rose by an impressive 10.5 per cent to £196m in 2024 according to the Digital Entertainment and Retail Association. That equates to 6.7 million vinyl records sold. In the US it’s a similar story, with vinyl making almost three-quarters of the year’s total physical format revenue ($2bn) according to the Recording Industry Association of America’s 2024 annual report. That’s a whole lot of records.
