{"id":3681,"date":"2013-10-18T09:09:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T09:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/10\/18\/vinyl-records-sales-reach-10-year-high-in-britain\/"},"modified":"2013-10-18T09:09:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T09:09:04","slug":"vinyl-records-sales-reach-10-year-high-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/10\/18\/vinyl-records-sales-reach-10-year-high-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinyl records sales reach 10-year high in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/d7\/78_rpm.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"158\" height=\"117\" \/><br \/>Sales of vinyl records in Britain are at their highest level for more than a decade, doubling in the past year thanks in part to the new Daft Punk album, an industry body said Thursday.<br \/>Almost 550,000 LPs have been sold so far in 2013, the highest number in any full year since 2003, according to the BPI, which represents the British record industry.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>If the trend continues to December, sales could reach more than 700,000, the highest annual total since 2001.<br \/>After 100 percent year-on-year growth, vinyl now accounts for 0.8 percent of all albums sold in Britain &#8212; up from 0.1 percent in 2007.<br \/>&#8220;The LP is back in the groove,&#8221; said Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI and the Brit Awards.<br \/>&#8220;We&#8217;re witnessing a renaissance for records -\u00e2\u0080\u0093 they&#8217;re no longer retromania and are becoming the format of choice for more and more music fans.&#8221;<br \/>The top-selling LP of the year is &#8220;Random Access Memories&#8221;, the new album from French electronic dance music duo Daft Punk, which includes the 70s-inspired hit &#8220;Get Lucky&#8221;.<br \/>David Bowie &#8212; who released his first single in a decade in January &#8212; Arctic Monkeys, Paul McCartney, Pearl Jam and Arcade Fire are all putting out music on vinyl this year.<\/p>\n<p>Source: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of vinyl records in Britain are at their highest level for more than a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}