Vinyl Forecasts, Facts & Figures

The $1 Billion Global Comeback Deloitte predicts that vinyl in 2017 will approach $1 billion in sales. Mostly from records, but also from used discs and record players. 15% of ALL physical media sales and 6% of ALL recorded music revenues. Source: Deloitte Global Real Retail Vinyl Sales Up 20.4% Source: Buzzangle/Border City Media 2017 […]
Awards host Craig Braun

Returning to host the Alex Awards is Craig Braun, a packaging legend in his own right, who executed such iconic album covers as the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers, the Velvet Underground & Nico, and Alice Cooper’s School’s Out. Braun is also a professional actor appearing major theatrical films, on television and on stage. Here Craig […]
ALEX AWARDS PRESS RELEASE

The best in vinyl packaging will be recognized Nov. 6, 2017 at the Alex Awards at the Westin Book Cadillac Detroit at “Making Vinyl,” the first B2B conference dedicated to the rebirth of the vinyl record manufacturing industry.
Press Release

Detroit, MI — Historians are going to study how a home entertainment format deemed to be dead and forgotten less than 15 years ago is now regarded globally as physical media’s only shining star in the digital age.
Vinyl Returns!

Last year The Audiophile Voice ran my investigative feature about how the resurgence of vinyl has been severely underreported by the mainstream media. The main point of this 4,000-word feature is that the numbers are off because the lion’s share of the 1,400 independent U.S. record stores and independent labels do not participate in the […]