A Pressing Issue: How ‘the vinyl revival’ has caught out the music industry during the pandemic

[Cesar]

Release dates going back and back. Box sets getting postponed by a year. Physical albums arriving months after their digital release. Rumours of pressing plant meltdowns… COVID-19 was bound to have an effect on the release of albums. But the pandemic has brought home a crisis in the music industry, and that is, quite simply, the fact that there aren’t enough pressing plants to cope with the demand for vinyl.

[superdeluxeedition.com] A Pressing Issue: How ‘the vinyl revival’ has caught out the music industry during the pandemic

(Quite a long article, but well worth the read, if you ask me. )

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[MikeyC]

Thanks for posting, César!

[Cesar]

You're welcome.

Maybe this is why we had all the 'The Neon' singles and remixes as digital downloads in the first place and only got the physical formats later in the year, and maybe this is also why Richard has been promising news that he can't announce just yet:

I'm not going to put any timings on the various announcements we have in the pipeline, but I am cautiously optimistic that we will be able to roll out at least a couple of them sooner rather than later.

(EIS Newsletter, 26/Mar/2021)

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[Cesar]

[billboard.com] Why Is Opening a New Vinyl Pressing Plant So Hard?

Growth in vinyl demand that's overwhelmed production presents a business opportunity for new manufacturers — they just have to open first.

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