If you love vinyl and infographics - we've got something great for you
Will Butler

17:00 14th October 2015

It's been a hot topic for the last five years but now we have empirical answers. How did vinyl records make their comeback?

Between Record Store Day, Tesco stocking vinyl and a surge of music fans back on the wax bandwagon, vinyl is back in a big way and we have the numbers to prove it.  

The good folks at Neomam for Liberty Games have made this amazing infographic that explains a myriad of nerdy facts from the record world like which vinyls have sold the best, why people prefer vinyl and how supreme digital music actually is. Check it out below. 

How Vinyl Records Made Their Comeback

 

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  • Florence + The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

  • Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear

  • Belle & Sebastian - Girl In Peacetime Want To Dance

  • David Bowie - 'Changes' (Record Store Day)

  • Eminem - 10LP vinyl box set

  • Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit

  • Ibeyi - Ibeyi

  • Enter Shikari - Mindsweep

  • The Decemberists - What A Beautiful World, What A Terrible World

  • Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor

  • Django Django - Born Under Saturn

  • Laura Marling - Short Movie

  • Ryan Adams - Live At Carnegie Hall

  • Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible US Mix (Record Store Day)

  • Roxy Music - The Complete Studio Recordings

  • The Who - The Brunswick Singles 1965-1966: 7" Box Set

  • The Cribs - To All My Sisters

  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love

  • Mumford & Sons - Wilder Mind

  • Blur - The Magic Whip

  • Paul Weller - Saturn's Pattern

  • Placebo - Placebo (RSD reissue)

  • George Clinton - Chocolate City: London

  • The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy Live

  • Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties!! Expanded Edition

  • Suede - Dog Man Star live

  • Donna Summer - Another Place And Time (5 x 12" singles)

  • Death Cab For Cutie - Kintsugi

  • John Lennon - The Vinyl Collection

  • The Vaccines - English Graffiti

  • Muse - Drones

  • Albert Hammond Jr - Momentary Masters

  • Sleater Kinney - No Cities To Love

  • Brandon Flowers - The Desired Effect

  • Placebo - First five albums anniversary vinyl reissues

  • Charli XCX - Sucker

  • David Bowie - Five Years box set

  • Bully - Feels Like

  • Jamie xx - In Colour

  • Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool

  • Garbage - Garbage (20 Years Queer reissue)

  • Led Zeppelin - Coda

  • Joy Division - Substance Box set

  • Red House Painters - First Four Albums

  • David Bowie - Golden Years (reissue)

  • New Order - Music Complete

  • Chvrches - Every Open Eye

  • Foals - What Went Down

  • The Libertines - Anthems For Doomed Youth

  • Bjork - Vulnicura

  • Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon

  • Editors - In Dream (in gold)

  • Joanna Newsom - Divers

  • Sleaford Mods - Key Markets

  • iamamiwhoami - Concert In Blue

  • Fall Out Boy - American Beauty/American Psycho

  • Ellie Goulding - Delirium

  • Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space

  • Spectres - Dying (with ouija board)

  • Grimes - Art Angels

  • Fidlar - Too

  • Roots Manuva - Bleeds

  • Coldplay - A Head Full Of Dreams


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