Year Of First Vinyl Record

Vinyl records have been delighting listeners and collectors since the 1900s.

Year of first vinyl record.

A phonograph record also known as a gramophone record especially in british english or simply a record is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove. For the first time since the 1980s vinyl record sales have overtaken cds in the u s growing by 3 6 from the first half of 2019 to the first half of 2020 according to the recording industry. In 1930 rca victor launched the first commercially available vinyl long playing record marketed as program transcription discs. The lp was soon confronted by the 45 a 7 inch 180 mm diameter fine grooved vinyl record playing at 45 rpm.

Americans seem to be listening to more vinyl records amid the pandemic. The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. The days of vinyl records being a nostalgic relic of the past are long gone. This year vinyl sales have outpaced cd sales in the united states for the first time since the 1980s.

At first the discs were commonly made from shellac with earlier records having a fine abrasive. These revolutionary discs were designed for playback at 33 rpm and pressed on a 12 diameter flexible plastic disc. The days of vinyl records being a nostalgic relic of the past are long gone. Last year in the united states vinyl sales were over 1 000 higher than a decade prior.

Vinyl sales in the uk reached 2 8 million in 2012. This year vinyl sales have outpaced cd sales in the united states for the first time since the 1980s. Us vinyl sales in 2017 reached 15 6 million and 16 7 million for 2018.