Getting into heated arguments with the pressing plant about why they're letting 500,000 copies of the new Adele album cut the vinyl pressing queue �ģ- Stumpy Frog Records | Jettomero 🤖 Pre-orders Open November 5, 2021 For the first time since the 1980s, total revenue for vinyls overtook CDs. The popularity of vinyl boomed during the global pandemic, as people indulged their love for music by spending money on physical records rather than the experience of a gig.
Subsequent social distancing measures and sick workers exacerbated those delays, meaning vinyl production is still suffering. Then, like many industries, production was hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. Two years ago there were only two plants in the world were making the lacquer discs – the base for a master plate that presses vinyl records.Īnd one of those, Apollo Masters Corporation, was destroyed in a fire, sparking fears back in February 2020 that vinyl supplies might be seriously impacted, as reported by Vulture.
ADELE VINYL FREE
You are all invited to our 50th anniversary party next year, as is Adele herself if she’s free We would like to thank the “overly enthusiastic” Adele fans for the free publicity we’re receiving for the boycott. “But Skeleton Records, they’re a real specialist shop… I don’t think anybody’s ever walked into Skeleton Records in Birkenhead and said, ‘Alright mate, you got the new Adele record? On vinyl?'” On the record store’s boycott, McNabb, who is from nearby Liverpool, added: “He’s making a stand there, and he’s making a good point. “Just because one artist who is obviously a global sensation is releasing an album, does this all mean we’ve got to sit on the bench and wait six months before we can put anything out?” he continued. “We’ve been missing out on sales because we haven’t physically been able to order copies of them.”
“I know a couple of artists whose albums are now seven months late because they just can’t get them pressed,” he said. Savage is also encouraging other indie shops to do the same. He added the decision to press 500,000 copies of 30 was “incredibly selfish” and to show support for smaller artists struggling to get their music onto vinyl due to the global shortage, Skellies, as the store is known locally, will not be stocking it. “She’s got half a million copies of her album pressed at a time when everybody’s struggling to get individual copies pressed,” manager of Skeleton Records Ben Savage, who has run the store in Birkenhead for six years, told The Big Issue. One shop in the north west of England has announced it will boycott the record completely because the 500,000 pressings ordered have apparently taken over global vinyl production and pushed back releases by other artists by months. Adele is about to dominate popular culture with her new album 30 – but indie record stores hit by major delays ahead of its huge vinyl release are saying hello from the other side.
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