Audio Video News

The LP has always had friends in high places. Apparently that includes someone at Best Buy, which is considering adding vinyl to all 1020 of its brick-and-mortar stores.

Since Soundscan began tracking LP sales in 1991, sales have continued to grow, increasing 89 percent in 2008 over the previous year, for a total of 1.88 million discs. From January to mid-April this year, sales have heated up even more, to 670,000 units. While this is only a small fraction of total album sales, at about 65.8 million, at least LP sales are moving in the right direction--up!

See the New York Post, and thanks to Stephen Mejias for spotting it first.

This would be as good a time as any to note that Michael Fremer, the Analog Corner columnist of Stereophile, has released his second DVD, It's a Vinyl World, After All. It discusses the basics of record collecting--including the all-important topic of how to clean them--and goes behind the scenes to the places where LPs are plated and pressed.