Viral Trends Vinyl records have taken over — and growing more popular than streaming By Brooke Kato Published Dec. 3, 2024, 9:23 a.m. ET ...

WASHINGTON — It'll be a big day for music fans on April 12, 2025. The 18th annual Record Store Day is bringing more than 370 special vinyl LP releases to store shelves, featuring hits from ...

Other formats - like CDs and 8-track tapes - are included, but on this day, vinyl is king. “People just want to hold in in their hands so they can connect to it,” Comstock added.

This is a second career for him, but he has been jamming to vinyl records since he was gifted his first album as a kid. "It was for my 11th birthday," he said, staring into a memory.

Radford quips that he buys too many records, but he has turned his love of record shops into a new book: “Atlanta Record Stores: An Oral History” (The History Press, 126 pages).

Record Store Day is Saturday, April 12, when crate diggers descend on thousands of independently owned brick-and-mortar record stores around the world to browse hundreds of new and exclusive vinyl ...

Over the past decade, vinyl records have made a major comeback. People purchased (US)$1.2 billion of records in 2022, a 20% jump from the previous year.