For much of autumn, the presses were working on nothing but Adele; her label, Columbia, had ordered 100,000 black vinyl copies of “30.” Since it was a two-LP set, that meant RTI had to mint ...

Label paperwork of the first LP. (Courtesy Library of Congress) According to label paperwork in the Library of Congress, the first vinyl disc featured the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New ...

But the numbers also tell a hidden story about music albums and vinyl: namely that while the ... But all this data implies that record labels are likely to continue to invest in albums and album ...

Alex G signed to RCA last year, and now he has announced his major label debut, Headlights. He introduces the album with the ...

It’s actually part of a larger label ... LP editions usually sell out almost instantaneously, while most customers still are happy to pick up the other versions at leisure, after the vinyl ...

Vinyl LP purchases have risen for the 16th consecutive year in the UK in 2023. While that’s not so surprising, what is perhaps unexpected is that vinyl sales are growing at their fastest rate ...

The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter announced the news in a letter to fans on May 30, six years after Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings purchased Swift’s work from her former label Big Machine ...

In a sign of internal struggle, the upscale record club that helped kickstart the current surge in LP demand ... whose label specializes in rigorously manufactured, high-end vinyl releases ...

Aside from a small group of boutique labels that insist on analog ... I learned quickly when the recent vinyl revival kicked in and LP releases became standard again that there wasn’t much ...