UK vinyl sales on pace to have best year in three decades

nme.com:

coronavirus pandemic, sales of vinyl have gone up almost 10% this year, which puts it on track to break the £100 million mark by the end of 2020, making for the best year since 1990.Sales by volume are also set to beat last year’s 4.3 million figure, which is remarkable given the fact that the physical music market took a dip by almost half in March when the first nationwide lockdown forced high street retailers to close.The first signs of this year’s soaring vinyl sales came when record stores re-opened in June for the first time since lockdown.Drew Hill, managing director of Proper Music, the UK’s biggest independent distributor of vinyl and CDs, told The Guardian: “We have seen 250% growth from the bottom of lockdown to where we are.