Nielsen Vinyl Sales 2017

According to nielsen vinyl album sales in the u s.

Nielsen vinyl sales 2017.

Last year vinyl unit sales totaled 9 2 million up from 6 1 million in 2013. Nielsen music has released the key stats for the first half of 2018 in the u s with streaming and to a lesser extent vinyl sales leading the growth spurt. Thanks in part to the best sales ever from this year s record store day in april sales of vinyl lps surged another 19 in the first half of 2018 compared to the first six months of 2017. 2016 coyit 2017 te nielen coany 5 includes all albums track equivalent albums streaming equivalent albums in millions includes cd cassette vinyl digital albums in millions note.

Thatâ s up from the previous one year. And album sales between january. Have grown a whopping 260 since 2009. According to nielsen s 2019 year end music report.

Track equivalent albums ratio of 10 tracks to 1 album and streaming equivalent albums ratio of 1500 streams to 1. Once again yearly vinyl album sales have hit another nielsen era record high as the configuration sold 14 32 million up 9 percent in 2017. Vinyl had a renaissance at retail by experiencing sales growth for the 12th consecutive year comprising 14 of all physical album sales. That s up from the previous one.

The top selling vinyl lp of the year was the re release of the beatles sgt. And the steady increase in unit growth is showing no signs of well skipping. The top vinyl lp of the year was twenty one pilots blurryface with david bowie s blackstar and adele s 25 finishing close behind. In 2018 vinyl album sales represented 11 9 of all album sales in the u s.

Pepper s lonely hearts club band. Nielsen s year end report shows that vinyl lp sales in canada were up 21 8 percent over last year marking the country s highest yearly vinyl sales to date in the nielsen era. Vinyl sales in the united states. Vinyl lp sales which have reached an all time nielsen music era high volume of 13m units increased for the 11th consecutive year in 2016.

It s expected that 2019 will mark yet another big year for vinyl once the 2019 nielsen music tracking. Nielsen music year end report u s.