Twenty-four years after Prince signed an agreement with Warner Bros. to release The Black Album, a factory sealed copy has appeared on Discogs. The factory sealed version of the album is one of eight known to be in existence. A discovery lot purchased …
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A Rare Pressing of Prince’s ‘The Black Album’ Resurfaces (Price Tag $40,000)
Twenty-four years after Prince signed an agreement with Warner Bros. to release The Black Album, a factory sealed copy has appeared on Discogs. The factory sealed version of the album is one of eight known to be in existence. A discovery lot purchased …
Universal Music Group Partners With Marvel to Reinterpret Classic Hip Hop Album Covers
Through a new partnership between Marvel and UMG division Urban Legends, three legendary hip-hop albums will get a comic book makeover. That could be the first of several rare reinterpretations. Urban Legends is a (mostly) old school rap-focused divis…
Third Man Records Opens a Old School Photo Lab In Nashville
A celebrated producer of vinyl records has announced a new old school photo studio. Third Man Records in Nashville soft-launched the venture this summer. Like its Detroit vinyl records plant, Third Man Photo Studio is now open to the public. The profe…
Warner Music Exec: ‘The Business of Physical Music Is Quite Strong. We Have No Intention of Walking Away from This Business’
Vinyl records are still growing, and CDs may not be tanking as badly as we think. Warner Music Group is committed to all of it. The resurgence of vinyl records is obviously causing labels to reconsider the format. But physical formats, including CDs,…
Extremely Rare Pink Floyd Red Promo Vinyl Sells For Nearly $14,000
A rare 2xLP red color variant of the Japanese promo for Pink Floyd’s 1969 album Ummagumma sold in August 2018 for nearly $14,000. This white label, red vinyl variant promo is an ultra-rare item as the red color was only used for promo albums, while bla…
Here’s the Complete Vinyl Records Manufacturing Specification for 7″, 10″, and 12″ Discs
Last month, we reported that an industry workgroup had been assembled to reexamine a decades-old specification for vinyl records. The most recent specification was issued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 1978. Since that poin…
HD Vinyl Partners With One of the World’s Largest Record Pressing Plants
Ahead of its launch, HD Vinyl is already striking critical manufacturing partnerships. Just this week, the company announced a slew of deals with major record manufacturing plants — including the massive GZ Media. Back in 2016, ‘HD Vinyl’ emerged as a…
Vinyl Record Sales Expected to Surpass 10 Million Units In 2018 — And That’s Conservative
Vinyl records are on pace to achieve another ‘record’ year — at least in the modern era. The latest bullish data is coming from BuzzAngle, whose cofounder Chris Muratore divulged a range of vinyl stats at the Making Vinyl conference in Detr…
Vinyl Record Sales Expected to Surpass 10 Million Units In 2018 — And That’s Conservative
Vinyl records are on pace to achieve another ‘record’ year — at least in the modern era. The latest bullish data is coming from BuzzAngle, whose cofounder Chris Muratore divulged a range of vinyl stats at the Making Vinyl conference in Detr…