Year Of First Vinyl Record

Americans seem to be listening to more vinyl records amid the pandemic.

Year of first vinyl record.

The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. A phonograph record also known as a gramophone record especially in british english or simply a record is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove. At first the discs were commonly made from shellac with earlier records having a fine abrasive. In fact vinyl outsold cds for the first time since the 1980s according to a recently released mid year report from the.

These revolutionary discs were designed for playback at 33 rpm and pressed on a 12 diameter flexible plastic disc. Us vinyl sales in 2017 reached 15 6 million and 16 7 million for 2018. Since rca victor launched the first commercial vinyl long playing record in 1930 vinyl has continued to grow in popularity. Last year in the united states vinyl sales were over 1 000 higher than a decade prior.

This year vinyl sales have outpaced cd sales in the united states for the first time since the 1980s. Vinyl lp records enjoyed a resurgence in the early 2010s. In 1930 rca victor launched the first commercially available vinyl long playing record marketed as program transcription discs. For the first time since the 1980s vinyl record sales have overtaken cds in the u s growing by 3 6 from the first half of 2019 to the first half of 2020 according to the recording industry.

Vinyl sales in the uk reached 2 8 million in 2012. The days of vinyl records being a nostalgic relic of the past are long gone. Vinyl records have been delighting listeners and collectors since the 1900s.