With live music shut down for more than a year, fans have turned to albums, and vinyl collections have boomed.
Leading up to Christmas 2020, for the first time since 1991, the record for most vinyl sales in a week was shattered twice, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Nearly 1.5 million LPs were sold between December 10 and 17, and in the following week, nearly two million were sold. While vinyl sales have been growing since 2007, they increased in the United States by almost 30 percent in 2020 alone.
There seems to be no sign of sales slowing down, either, says Jordan Wiggins, who works at Vinyl Moon.