Nabil Ayers to Keynote Making Vinyl in Minneapolis
Nabil Ayers is the President of Beggars Group US, where he has run campaigns for The National (GRAMMY award winner in 2018), Big Thief (GRAMMY award nominee in 2020, 2021 & 2022), Grimes, Future Islands, and St. Vincent as well as reissue campaigns including Pixies’ album Doolittle, which was certified Platinum in 2019. Ayers is […]
Columbia Records Makes History with the Release of the First Vinyl LP Record
Columbia Records made history on June 21, 1948, by releasing the first vinyl long-playing (LP) record. The invention of the LP marked a significant milestone in the history of music technology, as it allowed for longer and higher-quality recordings to be played on turntables. The man behind this revolutionary technology was Peter Goldmark, a Hungarian-American […]
Vinyl Album Sales Reach Modern-Era High in S. with Over 2 Million Copies Sold in Single Week
Record sales in S. reached a modern-era high in the week ending December 22, with over 2 million vinyl albums sold, according to Luminate. This marks the single largest sales week for vinyl albums in the modern era (since 1991) and only the second time that weekly vinyl album sales have exceeded 2 million. The […]
Can Polylactic acid, or PLA be used in vinyl record manufacturing?
Polylactic acid, or PLA, is a type of biodegradable plastic made from renewable resources like corn starch or sugarcane. It has become a material for manufacturing vinyl records. Because PLA is biodegradable, it is a more environmentally friendly alternative to traditional materials used in vinyl record manufacturing. It is also a strong and durable material, […]
Composition of Vinyl Records
While the name of the vinyl record seems to be a dead giveaway as to its composition, underneath it is a complex mixture of a significant number of additives. Each additive contributes a particular physical aspect to the performance of the vinyl album in order to provide optimal pressing and playback. Composition of Vinyl Records – […]
Update: The Pressing Situation Since March 2022
By Larry Jaffee, Making Vinyl co-founder/conference director In March 2022, Jack White made an appeal that went viral, calling for the major labels to build their own pressing plants once again to meet consumer demand and loosen the 10-month backlogs, which have also impacted his own Third Man Pressing facility in Detroit. I knew from […]
Vinyl boom at a turning point?
While the demand for vinyl is experiencing a new boom, the growth also brings difficulties. At the “Making Vinyl” industry get-together, the focus was not only on the many new pressing plants, but also on the topic of sustainability. 06.09.2022 10:27 • by Jonas Kiss • Musik Woche – Media Biz (Translated from German) https://beta.musikwoche.de/details/474822 […]
Vinyl: How High Is Up? CDs Rebound, Too!
By Larry Jaffee, Making Vinyl Europe Conference Director The world has turned upside down since the last time Making Vinyl and the Media-Tech Association joined forces in May 2019 to mount an in-person conference in Berlin, Germany. But a global pandemic – two-and-a-half years later hasn’t gone away – could not hamper consumers’ collective love […]
MAKING VINYL EUROPE RETURNS TO GERMANY 1-2 SEPT 2022
Offenbach conference first post-Covid event since Berlin in May 2019 Offenbach, Germany — A who’s who of Europe’s leading vinyl manufacturing experts will descend on 1-2 September at The Capitol, the majestic theater outside of Frankfurt, for the Making Vinyl Europe / Physical Media World Conference. The B2B event in English will be followed by […]
‘MAKING VINYL’ ANNOUNCES NEXT U.S. EVENT IN MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Save The Date Orlando, Florida, The world’s leading vinyl manufacturers, will congregate for Making Vinyl in Minneapolis on June 7-8, 2023 to trade notes on state-of-the-art production of the format, as new pressing plants are expanding global capacity. Industry leaders will present their latest breakthroughs in improving productivity and output that will alleviate the four-month […]
