A Gloucestershire-based record store has won Record Store of the Year 2024. Sound Records, in Stroud, won the accolade despite being up against well-established independent shops such as Rough Trade ...

When CDs were invented in 1982, the market for vinyl ... for records, said the site really started to see sales boom around 2015. From 2010 to 2014, most high-price records were selling for ...

On release, The Tortured Poets Department stormed to Number 1 with overall chart units of 270,000, 66,000 of which were vinyl units, making it the UK’s fastest-selling vinyl album of the millennium.

Vinyl music sales - led by the soaring success of Taylor Swift - have been recognised by statisticians who calculate the rising cost of living. After more than 30 years, vinyl records have ...