Uk Vinyl Sales 2016

Official vinyl albums chart top 40 11 september 2020 17 september 2020 compiled by the official charts company the uk s biggest vinyl albums of the week based on sales across a seven day period.

Uk vinyl sales 2016.

United kingdom channel islands 5 95 about 7 63 shipping. Vinyl sales topped three million last year the highest uk total in 25 years. This time last year the sale of vinyl albums reached 1 2m while digital sales were 4 4m. However vinyl sales were still a very small proportion of total music sales.

Vinyl has also experienced eight consecutive years of growth despite almost dying out around 2006. Vinyl sales are still on the rise in the uk with nearly 640k lps purchased in q1 2016 a figure that s up 61 8 on the same period in 2015 according to bpi and official charts company research. Sleeve has just some general age wear. Back in 2007 there were roughly 210 thousand new vinyl albums sold in the uk.

This statistic displays share of album sales going on vinyl albums in the united kingdom uk from 2009 to 2016. Overall very good copy. In 2009 vinyl albums accounted for 0 2 percent of all album sales and this figure. 100 0 354 ratings.

Uk vinyl sales up 61 8 yoy in q1 2016. More than 3 2 million records were sold in 2016 a rise of 53 on the previous year according to the bpi which. Pink floyd s the endless river became the fastest selling uk vinyl release of 2014 and the fastest selling since 1997 despite selling only 6 000 copies. Last year 4 1 million were picked up by eager buyers an increase of 1 852 percent.

The rise is largely down to legions of bowie fans paying tribute to the late star by purchasing his last album blackstar and seminal releases from his vast catalogue in vinyl form alongside a growing number of specialist. We hardly need more convincing of vinyl s resurgence over the past few years but a report from the british phonographic industry bpi today details that more records were sold in the uk in 2016.