Top-selling vinyl album - The Beatles " Abbey Road "

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Forbes
January 19, 2012
Vinyl Continues Unlikely Recovery, According To New Numbers

For vinyl records, the tables are continuing to turn. Earlier this month Nielsen released its 2011 Music Industry report, and there were plenty of newsworthy takeaways–industrywide album sales were up for the first time since 2004, while Adele’s 21 was the best-selling album, moving an astonishing 5.8 million copies in the U.S. alone.Lost amid the thicket of stats, however, was the fact that vinyl continued its unlikely comeback in 2011. For the fourth year in a row, more LPs were sold than in any other year in the SoundScan era; last year, sales soared to 3.9 million, up from 2.8 million LPs in 2010. Of the 228 million physical albums sold in 2011, nearly 2% were vinyl. Two-thirds of those albums were purchased at independent music stores.The top-selling vinyl album wasn’t much of a surprise–The Beatles’ Abbey Road moved 41,000 units to claim the honor.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2012/01/18/vinyl-continues-unlikely-recovery-according-to-new-numbers/

[Greg]

I've kind of forgotten if anyone else plays vinyl here.  I don't own a CD...just digital and vinyl.

This is cool to hear especially since I just went to the record show on campus and bought many albums last Saturday.
Music of Trinidad, Extra Texture, Dylan Bring It All Back Home, Indian Ragas, Sinatra, 2 Zepplin albums for my son, and more.

Vinyl is like a community here.  There are two record stores here.  One sells only vinyl, and it's just cool to go talk music and hang out.  College kids go there. It's strange knowing that your choices are limited unlike the web. 

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Yes, but even a scratched record sounds..errr?.....better?...when I listen. I don't know what it is about digital...but something ain't right.