Death of the LP?

News: 14th September 2012 by Louise Dodgson under Record Labels, Selling & Distributing Your Music

Death of the LP?

With changes in music consumption, the single has gradually become far more prominent than the album. Only last month, album sales reached a new low when the LP crowned Number 1 didn't even manage to reach 10,000 sales. The BBC's Colin Paterson went out to gather first hand opinions on the future of the LP...and who better to ask than those who attended the Mercury Music Prize nominations earlier this week. Listen via the link below...

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album sales, music sales, music consumption, single sales, mercury music prize, record sales

 

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