Vinyl records have endured every format that threatened to replace them. CDs would make them obsolete in the eighties, digital downloading did it in the early 2000s, and streaming ought to have done ...
While much of the music industry has struggled, vinyl record sales have surged, with 43.6 million EPs and LPs shipped in the U.S. last year, up from less than a million nearly two decades ago.
Vinyl keeps winning big. In 2025, U.S. buyers snapped up 47.9 million units, an 8.6% jump that marked the 19th year of steady ...
Matt Paxton explains why Taylor Swift’s limited vinyl releases may interest collectors, citing rarity, condition, and research tools used to determine whether records hold resale value.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images Decades before streaming and digital playlists, music spun on a turntable and straight into the record books. The ...
If you’ve got a box of old records lying around, it might be a good time to check what’s actually in there. While not every dusty LP is a hidden gem, a few of them have gone for the kind of money that ...
Nobody seriously saw this coming. Back in the early 2000s, if you had told a music executive that vinyl records would one day outsell CDs again, you would have been laughed out of the room. The format ...
In 2019, Record Store Day partnered with manufacturer Crosley to revive a 3-inch collectible vinyl format first launched in Japan in 2004. Five years later, a new 4-inch-sized format called Tiny Vinyl ...
To maintain the quality of a vinyl record, proper storage is vital. Luckily, this thrift store find easily stores records while also acting as a display.