By Joe Tempesta
4/21/2014
Sales of vinyl albums in the U.S. increased by 30 percent in 2013, but made up only 2.1 percent of total albums sold, according to the Nielsen SoundScan. Vinyl only sold 6 million units last year, compared to 165 million CDs and 118 million digital downloads.
Jonathan Wyner, president and chief mastering engineer of M Works Studios in Cambridge, has been in the music business for over 25 years, and has done work for top-selling artists such as Aerosmith, Nirvana and David Bowie. He said vinyl sales may be up, but they will never be what they once were.
“It’s still a tiny niche market,” he said. “And I think it remains there.”
Scan the graph below to see the market shares of albums sold in the U.S. last year.
SOURCE: NIELSEN
