Discogs have revealed the 100 most expensive items purchased in the United States via its online marketplace since its launch in 2005.
Ranging from $2,247 to $15,000, the countdown features big names including Led Zeppelin, Nirvana and The Velvet Underground.
Prince - who features several times - tops the list with 'The Black Album' aka 'The Funk Bible', which sold for $15,000 in 2016.
Following some initial delays, MWM's new Phase technology has started shipping to early buyers.
Nina Kraviz had 15 brand new, unreleased tracks cut to vinyl last weekend so she could play them at Time Warp.
Kraviz and the mighty Helena Hauff played a very special vinyl-only b2b at the German techno festival on Sunday morning and, to mark the occasion, the трип label founder had four dubplates of unreleased music made at Berlin’s Manmade Mastering. You can watch a video of the process below.
Global music sales topped $19 billion in 2018, according to the latest IFPI Global Music Report.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry released its 2019 Global Music Report on Tuesday, recording that global music revenues have increased by an astonishing 9.7%.
Equally impressive is total streaming revenue growing by 34%, meaning that it streaming now accounts for nearly half (47%) of all revenue. Streaming's meteoric rise is countered by a decline in download (21.2%) and physical (10.1%) sales, a foreboding omen for all you vinyl heads.
We're still deep in the midst of a resurgence in vinyl culture. Vinyl sales continue to rise year on year, up 12% in 2018, and vinyl-only sets in hotspots such as Ibiza remain a serious draw. Even Tomorrowland has featured vinyl-only stages in recent years, led by long-time record lover Sven Väth. In more underground circles, vinyl is central to popular “selector” festivals, and the culture that has sprung up around them, giving the medium and those who play it an aura of cool topped by little else in dance music.
“I’ve always thought that rich kids are the death of culture. Even when they do good things with their money, even if the motivation behind them is altruistic, wealth makes the playing field uneven. It increases fees and costs across the board, and pushes out independents”— JOSH DOHERTY
A new app designed to match music from your Spotify playlists with vinyl available to buy online has been launched.
Once you've logged in with your Spotify details, Record Radar will scan music you've added to your Spotify playlists and then find records containing those tracks and point you in the direction of where you can purchase them via Discogs. It will only scan playlists that you have created yourself.
A new vinyl pressing plant called Clampdown Record Pressing is set to open in Canada this spring.
Based in Vancouver, the plant is the first to open in the city in 30 years, and will feature new Viryl Technology machines. It's the project of local musician and entrepeneur Billy Bones, who says that the plant is already taking orders for pressings.
The plant is set to press 12"s, 10"s, LPs and coloured vinyl or picture discs.
New research conducted alongside online record shop Norman Records has uncovered that vinyl sales increased fivefold in the period from 2013 to the end of 2018.
The information, released by the BPI, chimes with increased interest in vinyl in recent years, and Norman Records' own figures also showed a huge 450% increase in vinyl sales over the past 10 years.
Online vinyl marketplace Discogs sold almost 11 million records in 2018.
Doubling up as a record year for the website, it 10,912,527 items across the year - a 8.6% sales increase over 2017.
The figures were revealed as part of the company's annual Data and Trends report.
An iOS app with record diggers in mind called Disco FM has been launched.
It's described as the "must-have app for all the crate diggers and vinyl record collectors," and is designed to give people searching through records in shops an easy way to access audio clips of the vinyl in front of them.
