(Hypebot) — More than 2.11 million albums sold in the US in the week ending December 23, 2021, making it the largest week for vinyl since 1991.
That’s a major jump from 2020 when 1.84 million vinyl LPs sold in the week ending Dec. 24th, according to Billboard MRC data. The week ending Dec. 23 was also the sixth week in a row where vinyl album sales exceeded one million copies
Overall U.S. vinyl sales were up 54% in 2021 totaling 41.7 million albums despite ongoing supply chain issues.
H/T Making Vinyl
Bruce Houghton is Founder and Editor of Hypebot and MusicThinkTank and serves as a Senior Advisor to Bandsintown which acquired both publications in 2019. He is the Founder and President of the Skyline Artists Agency and a professor for the Berklee College Of Music.
