Saturday, July 1, 2017

Sony to Begin Producing Vinyl Records Again
Sony Music, the world's second largest producer of recorded music, has announced that by March 2018 it will begin production of vinyl records in-house once again after ceasing production in 1989 because of the public's apparent lack of interest and demand for CD's. The move comes in response to an unexpected new massive demand that appears to have begun just a few years ago.

Now, vinyl record sales are skyrocketing! According to Time Magazine, over 9.2 million records were sold in 2014. Then the number jumped to nearly 12 million in 2015, which was the highest sales total since 1988. Now, this past year, sales of vinyl records were actually higher than CD's for at least one month in Britain.

Sony has announced that they have "found" a cutting lathe for its Tokyo studios so they can produce master discs which are needed to manufacture vinyl records. In the U.S., NPR has reported that there are only about 16 operating presses still remaining in the country. Most of them are now overloaded with the new demand.

According to the BBC, Sony is now faced with a problem of being able to find engineers who are still alive who remember how the manufacturing process works to create vinyl records in the first place. Holy Cow! Who would have thought this would happen after CD's came along?

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