Record Store Day 2018
Apr 30, 2018 22:28:28 GMT -5
Post by Gary on Apr 30, 2018 22:28:28 GMT -5
Bruce Springsteen's 'Greatest Hits' on Red Vinyl Leads Biggest Record Store Day Yet
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By Keith Caulfield | April 30, 2018 8:57 PM EDT
Record Store Day once again powered historic sales numbers for vinyl albums and singles in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music.
The 11th annual festivities, staged on April 21, helped yield a whopping 733,000 vinyl albums sold in the week ending April 26 -- a record for Record Store Day week, and the third-largest weekly sum for vinyl albums since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991. Further, of that sum, 580,000 vinyl albums were sold at independent retailers -- the single largest week for the format at the retail sector in Nielsen Music history.
The annual indie music retailer celebration traditionally offers a slate of exclusive and limited-edition vinyl albums and singles, generally only found at indie stores. In turn, with so many unique vinyl offerings all going on sale at the same time (with a bevy from A-list acts), it’s no surprise that vinyl sales shot through the roof in the wake of Record Store Day.
The top-selling Record Store Day-exclusive album title at indie stores during the week was the red vinyl release of Bruce Springsteen’s Greatest Hits album. It was followed by David Bowie’s Welcome to the Blackout (Live London ’78) and Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night - Live at the Roxy.
The top-selling Record Store Day-exclusive single at indie stores was Led Zeppelin’s double-sided 7-inch single “Friends”/“Rock and Roll” -- which also marked the legendary band’s first release for Record Store Day. The Nos. 2 and 3 biggest singles were David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” (Full Length Demo) on 12-inch vinyl, and Sufjan Stevens’ 10-inch translucent vinyl of “Mystery of Love." (The latter was a three-song set that also included his other two song contributions for the Call Me by Your Name soundtrack: “Futile Devices” and “Visions of Gideon.”)
See the full list of the top 25 selling Record Store Day-exclusive albums and singles, below.
Here are some statistics about 2018 Record Store Day and its sales impact:
— 733,000 vinyl albums were sold, industry-wide, in the U.S. in the week ending April 26. That’s the biggest week ever for vinyl album sales during a Record Store Day week, and the largest week for vinyl albums outside of the Christmas season since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991. (The two larger weeks were registered in the frame ending Dec. 24, 2015, with 753,000 copies sold; and the week ending Dec. 21, 2017, with 811,000 sold.)
— In the week ending April 26, vinyl album sales were up 190 percent compared to the prior week (733,000 vs. 253,000), with 98 percent of that gain coming from independent record stores.
— Overall album sales across all sellers of music grew 17 percent in the week ending April 26 — the largest weekly gain in sales in 2018, the first time this year that volume grew by more than 10 percent in a week, and the biggest weekly increase since the frame ending Dec. 21, 2017 (up 32 percent).
— Strikingly, without the album sales gains registered by indie record stores in the week ending April 26, overall album sales would have been down 2.5 percent that week (instead of being up 17 percent).
— 25 percent of all albums sold in the week ending April 26 were sold at independent record stores.
— Total album sales at independent record stores rose by 200 percent in the week ending April 26.
— Total album sales were up by 23 percent at independent record stores, as compared to Record Store Day week last year (799,000 vs. 649,000).
Top Record Store Day-Exclusive Albums at Independent Record Stores
Rank
Artist
Title
1
Bruce Springsteen
Greatest Hits
2
David Bowie
Welcome to the Blackout (Live London '78)
3
Neil Young
Tonight's the Night Live at the Roxy
4
Rage Against the Machine
Live at the Democratic National Convention 2000
5
Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead
Dylan & The Dead
6
Pink Floyd
Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Mono)
7
Prince
1999
8
The Cure
Mixed Up
9
Grateful Dead
Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA 2/27/69
10
Phish
Billy Breathes
11
Nas
Illmatic: Live From the Kennedy Center
12
The Doors
The Matrix Part II
13
Ramones
Sundragon Sessions
14
Madonna
Madonna (The First Album)
15
The Cure
Torn Down (Mixed Up Extra)
16
The National
Boxer Live in Brussels
17
The Rolling Stones
Their Satanic Majesties Request
18
Jerry Garcia
Run for the Roses
19
Soundgarden
A-Sides
20
Tom Waits
Bastards
21
Tom Waits
Brawlers
22
David Bowie
Bowie Now
23
Car Seat Headrest
Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror)
24
Sublime
89 Vision
25
Madonna
You Can Dance
Source: Nielsen Music, for the week ending April 26, 2018.
Top Record Store Day-Exclusive Singles at Independent Record Stores
Rank
Artist
Title
1
Led Zeppelin
Friends/Rock and Roll
2
David Bowie
Let's Dance (Full Length Demo)
3
Sufjan Stevens
Mystery of Love
4
The Notorious B.I.G.
Juicy
5
Jimi Hendrix
Mannish Boy/Trash Men
6
Fleet Foxes
Crack Up (Choral Version)/In the Morning (Live in Switzerland)
7
Cheech & Chong
Up In Smoke (40th Anniversary)
8
Descendents
Who We Are
9
The Police
Roxanne
10
Phoenix
Monologue
11
The Flaming Lips
The Story of Yum Yum and Dragon
12
Florence & The Machine
Sky Full of Song/New York Poem (For Polly)
13
Steven Wilson
How Big the Space
14
Def Leppard
Live at Abbey Road
15
Mac DeMarco/Shamir
Beat Happening Covers
16
The Regrettes/The Distillers
Side by Side
17
Czarface
Man's Worst Enemy
18
Elvis Costello
Someone Else's Heart
19
Original Cast of Spongebob Squarepants, The New Musical
(Just a) Simple Sponge
20
Chris Bell
I Am the Cosmos/You and Your Sister
21
First Aid Kit
You are the Problem Here
22
Trampled by Turtles
Wildflowers
23
Kevin Morby + Waxahatchee
Farewell Transmission/Dark Don't Hide It
24
The Voidz
Qyurruys/Coul As a Ghoul
25
MC5
I Can Only Give You Everything/I Just Don't Know
Source: Nielsen Music, for the week ending April 26, 2018.
News
By Keith Caulfield | April 30, 2018 8:57 PM EDT
Record Store Day once again powered historic sales numbers for vinyl albums and singles in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music.
The 11th annual festivities, staged on April 21, helped yield a whopping 733,000 vinyl albums sold in the week ending April 26 -- a record for Record Store Day week, and the third-largest weekly sum for vinyl albums since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991. Further, of that sum, 580,000 vinyl albums were sold at independent retailers -- the single largest week for the format at the retail sector in Nielsen Music history.
The annual indie music retailer celebration traditionally offers a slate of exclusive and limited-edition vinyl albums and singles, generally only found at indie stores. In turn, with so many unique vinyl offerings all going on sale at the same time (with a bevy from A-list acts), it’s no surprise that vinyl sales shot through the roof in the wake of Record Store Day.
The top-selling Record Store Day-exclusive album title at indie stores during the week was the red vinyl release of Bruce Springsteen’s Greatest Hits album. It was followed by David Bowie’s Welcome to the Blackout (Live London ’78) and Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night - Live at the Roxy.
The top-selling Record Store Day-exclusive single at indie stores was Led Zeppelin’s double-sided 7-inch single “Friends”/“Rock and Roll” -- which also marked the legendary band’s first release for Record Store Day. The Nos. 2 and 3 biggest singles were David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” (Full Length Demo) on 12-inch vinyl, and Sufjan Stevens’ 10-inch translucent vinyl of “Mystery of Love." (The latter was a three-song set that also included his other two song contributions for the Call Me by Your Name soundtrack: “Futile Devices” and “Visions of Gideon.”)
See the full list of the top 25 selling Record Store Day-exclusive albums and singles, below.
Here are some statistics about 2018 Record Store Day and its sales impact:
— 733,000 vinyl albums were sold, industry-wide, in the U.S. in the week ending April 26. That’s the biggest week ever for vinyl album sales during a Record Store Day week, and the largest week for vinyl albums outside of the Christmas season since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991. (The two larger weeks were registered in the frame ending Dec. 24, 2015, with 753,000 copies sold; and the week ending Dec. 21, 2017, with 811,000 sold.)
— In the week ending April 26, vinyl album sales were up 190 percent compared to the prior week (733,000 vs. 253,000), with 98 percent of that gain coming from independent record stores.
— Overall album sales across all sellers of music grew 17 percent in the week ending April 26 — the largest weekly gain in sales in 2018, the first time this year that volume grew by more than 10 percent in a week, and the biggest weekly increase since the frame ending Dec. 21, 2017 (up 32 percent).
— Strikingly, without the album sales gains registered by indie record stores in the week ending April 26, overall album sales would have been down 2.5 percent that week (instead of being up 17 percent).
— 25 percent of all albums sold in the week ending April 26 were sold at independent record stores.
— Total album sales at independent record stores rose by 200 percent in the week ending April 26.
— Total album sales were up by 23 percent at independent record stores, as compared to Record Store Day week last year (799,000 vs. 649,000).
Top Record Store Day-Exclusive Albums at Independent Record Stores
Rank
Artist
Title
1
Bruce Springsteen
Greatest Hits
2
David Bowie
Welcome to the Blackout (Live London '78)
3
Neil Young
Tonight's the Night Live at the Roxy
4
Rage Against the Machine
Live at the Democratic National Convention 2000
5
Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead
Dylan & The Dead
6
Pink Floyd
Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Mono)
7
Prince
1999
8
The Cure
Mixed Up
9
Grateful Dead
Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA 2/27/69
10
Phish
Billy Breathes
11
Nas
Illmatic: Live From the Kennedy Center
12
The Doors
The Matrix Part II
13
Ramones
Sundragon Sessions
14
Madonna
Madonna (The First Album)
15
The Cure
Torn Down (Mixed Up Extra)
16
The National
Boxer Live in Brussels
17
The Rolling Stones
Their Satanic Majesties Request
18
Jerry Garcia
Run for the Roses
19
Soundgarden
A-Sides
20
Tom Waits
Bastards
21
Tom Waits
Brawlers
22
David Bowie
Bowie Now
23
Car Seat Headrest
Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror)
24
Sublime
89 Vision
25
Madonna
You Can Dance
Source: Nielsen Music, for the week ending April 26, 2018.
Top Record Store Day-Exclusive Singles at Independent Record Stores
Rank
Artist
Title
1
Led Zeppelin
Friends/Rock and Roll
2
David Bowie
Let's Dance (Full Length Demo)
3
Sufjan Stevens
Mystery of Love
4
The Notorious B.I.G.
Juicy
5
Jimi Hendrix
Mannish Boy/Trash Men
6
Fleet Foxes
Crack Up (Choral Version)/In the Morning (Live in Switzerland)
7
Cheech & Chong
Up In Smoke (40th Anniversary)
8
Descendents
Who We Are
9
The Police
Roxanne
10
Phoenix
Monologue
11
The Flaming Lips
The Story of Yum Yum and Dragon
12
Florence & The Machine
Sky Full of Song/New York Poem (For Polly)
13
Steven Wilson
How Big the Space
14
Def Leppard
Live at Abbey Road
15
Mac DeMarco/Shamir
Beat Happening Covers
16
The Regrettes/The Distillers
Side by Side
17
Czarface
Man's Worst Enemy
18
Elvis Costello
Someone Else's Heart
19
Original Cast of Spongebob Squarepants, The New Musical
(Just a) Simple Sponge
20
Chris Bell
I Am the Cosmos/You and Your Sister
21
First Aid Kit
You are the Problem Here
22
Trampled by Turtles
Wildflowers
23
Kevin Morby + Waxahatchee
Farewell Transmission/Dark Don't Hide It
24
The Voidz
Qyurruys/Coul As a Ghoul
25
MC5
I Can Only Give You Everything/I Just Don't Know
Source: Nielsen Music, for the week ending April 26, 2018.