Nielsen Vinyl Sales 2017

Vinyl sales in the united states.

Nielsen vinyl sales 2017.

Have grown a whopping 260 since 2009. The top vinyl lp of the year was twenty one pilots blurryface with david bowie s blackstar and adele s 25 finishing close behind. Pepper s lonely hearts club band. Nielsen music year end report u s.

In fact sales of vinyl are actually increasing at a rapid clip. The top selling vinyl lp of the year was the re release of the beatles sgt. According to nielsen s 2019 year end music report. Once again yearly vinyl album sales have hit another nielsen music era record high as the configuration sold 14 32 million up 9 percent in 2017.

According to nielsen vinyl album sales in the u s. 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. 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. Last year vinyl unit sales totaled 9 2 million up from 6 1 million in 2013.

And album sales between january. Thatâ s up from the previous one year. 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. And the steady increase in unit growth is showing no signs of well skipping.

In 2018 vinyl album sales represented 11 9 of all album sales in the u s. It s expected that 2019 will mark yet another big year for vinyl once the 2019 nielsen music tracking. 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.

That s up from the previous one. 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.