Vinyl Vs Streaming

Streaming will continue to grow and we actually work vinyl into our campaigns as well.

Vinyl vs streaming.

Think of them like two of your favourite musical genres or two of your favourite artists. Vinyl and streaming are the perfect pair. Indeed with streaming services listeners do not own the music so in a few decades time they will not have a physical collection of archived music. Most modern record players even allow you to record your collection to a digital format too so you get the best of both worlds.

Free spotify grew 27 1. They may both give you. Respectable but not like vinyl s 52 1 increase. The difference is an order of.

While vinyl doesn t quite compare with paid subscription streaming services or internet radio s 387 2 million in revenues record sales are growing much much faster. Music is either unashamedly analogue or defiantly digital. As a musician it s a huge difference between what we make from the sale of a cd or even a download let alone vinyl versus a subscription which is streaming. Vinyl sounds better than mp3s ever could.

Vinyl is almost like a memory of an event as well as having it to stream it s a reminder of something that. Most of the music is broadcast in some lossy format where details are missed and the overall quality is reduced. But the two different technologies have much more in common than you might think. On paper they couldn t be more different.

Because vinyl requires physical objects to store the music on instead of just streaming it from a server you ll need to be able to buy and store hard copies of every album you want to listen to and that space and pricetag adds up fast. Vinyl offers a tactile and physical relationship that other sources cannot replicate and is a reassuring physical presence in an ever expanding digital world. Paid subscription streaming e g. It happens because audio files get compressed to make them small enough to store thousands of them on the phone and to stream online.

Paid spotify grew 24 9 and ad supported streaming e g.