Discogs Enjoys Record-Breaking Sales Year

Discogs

DISCOGS, the world's most extensive physical music database, reported "unparalleled growth" in 2017, with the worldwide buying and selling of vinyl continuing to parallel the unmatched growth of physical music data in the DISCOGS YEAR-END REPORT 2017.

DISCOGS experienced a record-breaking year in 2017,with sales topping 10,000,000 releases sold, highlighted by the two most expensive releases sold in the 7" single format with THE BEATLES' "Love Me Do" selling for $14,757.00, followed by SEX PISTOLS' "God Save The Queen," going for a whopping $14,690.00.

Additional sales trends include cassettes showing the most substantial format growth at 29.54% with CDs not far behind at 28.39% despite recent news of BEST BUY and TARGET abandoning the format. Most collected genre trends include classical showing the most significant increase at 42.36% followed by LATIN music at 38.33%. 

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