UK vinyl sales have continued to climb in the UK despite the dramatic impact of COVID-19 on the music industry. New figures from the Entertainment Retailers Association - who manage Record Store Day in the UK - reveal that last month's RSD 'drop' on August 29 saw vinyl sales rise 3% year on year with 2.7 million units sold so far in 2020.
Vinyl sales have been steadily increasing in recent years, but this increase is a particularly impressive feat for the format after the pandemic caused Record Shops to close for several months.
The pandemic also meant adjusting this year's Record Store Day - usually a one-day event in April - to a series of three 'drop' dates, the next of which is on Saturday, September 26.