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Best Buy to start selling Vinyls
Posted by Strada | Posted in Industry | Posted on 28-04-2009
NYpost published an interesting article about the growth of vinyl sales and Best buy trying to catch some market shares…
Vinyl sales grew 15 percent year-over-year in 2007 and 89 percent in 2008, making the 1.9 million vinyl albums purchased last year the most since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. This year is shaping up to be even better, with 670,000 vinyl albums sold through mid-April.
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“Our goal is to occupy as much square footage as possible with music products,” said Atlantic Records CEO Craig Kallman, whose personal vinyl collection numbers more than 300,000, making it one of the largest private collections in the world.
I doubt this very much so…remeber this guy’s collection
I doubt that I will start buying records at best buy but if this can help the vinyl culture I am all for it.



