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Re:The Great Bifurcation by ghaff on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @12:37PM (#29554494)
"Massive" niche resurgences. Nothing remotely mainstream.
Re:The Great Bifurcation by tenebrisalietum on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @12:49PM (#29554684)
I'm gonna say vinyl is a bit more than mainstream. I can buy records at Walmart. That usually means a trend is widespread.
Re:The Great Bifurcation by ghaff on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @03:00PM (#29556718)
It's less niche than I would have guessed--about 5% of industry revenue and about the same as CDs (which surprised me a bit given that I still sometimes buy CDs and haven't bough vinyl for decades). Still, that's revenue not listens or anything like that so that's still pretty much a rounding error.
Re:The Great Bifurcation by TapWaterBandit on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @09:56PM (#29561511)
It is extremely niche because the relevant measure isn't revenue, it is "hours of music listened to". And the amount of hours spent listening to vinyl as a proportion of all music listened to is vanishingly small, smaller than it has ever been. A hipster resurgence as a novelty collectors item doesn't change that.