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Apr 17, 2024 · Re-releases, small labels and legacy bands are returning to vinyl. Lots of classic artists are reissuing some of the most influential albums of all time, including titles such as Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours which both featured in the top 10 of the UK Offical Vinyl Artist Albums Chart 2023.
Discover the latest vinyl releases, albums, EPs, singles and limited editions available for pre-order in all music styles
- How Does A Vinyl Release Normally Work?
- Why Has The Time Shot Up to Around Five months?
- Just How Many Pressing Plants Are there?
- What About American Pressing Plants?
- How Do Pressing Plants Decide Which Records Get Pressed First?
- Are Major Labels Buying Up All The Space at Pressing Plants?
- What About Cds? Are There Delays in Making Them Too?
- What Are The Practical Effects of Pressing Delays on Planning Reissues?
- Will The Digital-First, Physical-Later Split Release Model Become A fixture?
- How Are The Delays in Pressing Albums Affecting Record Stores?
When an album is mastered, a lacquerA record-like disk. It has an aluminium base plate attached to which is about 20mm of soft lacquer. Audio engineers using a lathe machine and a very sharp gemstone to carve the music into the lacquer.is cut. This is then sent off to the pressing plant where a test pressing is made. This is what labels and artists...
When COVID-19 struck, things became, understandably, pretty quiet for the music industry for about three or four months. One pressing plant exec told us: “When things began falling apart, we advised our clients it was the perfect time to press up their vinyl, as there was suddenly capacity available. We told them: ‘If you don’t do it now, by the tr...
It’s a question nobody seems able to give a precise answer to. The BPI don’t have any data on the exact number in the UK, let alone worldwide. It’s safe to say there are fewer than 10 established worldwide plants of any meaningful size. These are: 1. OPTIMAL: a high-end German plant described by the head of one mid-sized label as “the Rolls-Royce o...
American vinyl is a thorny issue. The vinyl renaissance hasn’t been as widespread in the States as in Britain. In general terms, a box set will sell about as many copies in the US as in the UK, so there’s obviously far fewer records being sold per capita Stateside. There isn’t a mass-market pressing plant on the scale of GZ, with American vinyl ess...
Specialist firms, such as Key Prodution, act as ‘brokers’ for labels. As well as offering design and packaging services, they buy up space across the plants to offer their clients. Some labels may choose to do this in-house, while others use a broker who will have relationships with all the major pressing plants and can advise on how long the wait ...
That’s always the rumour. It was convincingly denied both by a major label exec we spoke to and a pressing plant. SDE was told: “It’s not true that majors are going to plants and demanding ‘Take everyone else off press, you have to press ours’”. It seems, the majors simply have more resources to be able to plan their releases further ahead and know...
Nope. The format that industry would apparently like to die still takes approximately 10 days to manufacture. If you are looking for fancy gatefold card wallet packaging you are probably looking at an additional 10 days. That’s still significantly less time than four-five months, though. The BPI said: “With 16 million copies sold [last year], CD co...
The bonus material included on a reissue is often planned as far as a year in advance. But that doesn’t mean you are ready to go. Once you know what you want to do there are still plenty of potential hazards. A compiler might be trying to locate a specific master tape (it took the best part of a year to locate the multi-tracks required for Steven W...
Possibly. After the success of Post Human: Survival Horror, Bring Me The Horizon have no qualms about repeating the idea. Jordan Fish says: “If there’s another option, we’d consider it, but we’re just not going to sit on our music for four months. We’re happy Post Human: Survival Horror made number one when the vinyl went on sale, but that had noth...
Delays at getting fresh stock of popular titles in has gone from four weeks to four months. David Kosky, owner of well-respected record store Black Circle in Leighton Buzzard, Beds, saw albums by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Black Sabbath unavailable over Christmas. Even Fleetwood Mac’s eternal vinyl best-seller Rumours has been hard to stoc...
The best limited edition releases, coloured vinyl, reissues and first-time pressings coming soon in 2021. By Jack White | 19 August 2021. share: Sales of vinyl records climbed for a 13th...
- Alan York
- David Bowie: ‘Divine Symmetry’ (4CD+Blu-Ray) David Bowie fans began the year revelling in the TOY:BOX set, and they ended 2022 on an even bigger high with the arrival of Divine Symmetry, a multi-disc collection celebrating a particularly fertile 12-month period in which Bowie worked his way towards creating 1971’s esteemed Hunky Dory album.
- The Beatles: ‘Revolver’ (5CD, 4LP) Beatles fans have been spoilt of late, with sumptuous box-set editions of landmark albums all doing the rounds in time for Christmas over the past five years.
- Joni Mitchell: ‘The Asylum Albums (1972-1975)’ (5LP 180g vinyl, 4CD) Such is the calibre the best reissues of 2022 that only releases of true quality can enter the upper echelons of this list, but that’s certainly captured in abundance on Joni Mitchell’s The Asylum Years (1972-1975).
- Madonna: ‘Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones’ (6x red-and-black vinyl, 3CD) Madonna made history once again when, in February 2022, she topped Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart for the 50th time, with I Don’t Search I Find, making her the first and only recording artist to have 50 No.1 hits on any single Billboard chart.
Reissue vinyl and CDs. New vinyl reissues this week include a remastered edition of American Football ’s indie-emo classic, Bridget St. John, box set and standard editions of Weezer ’s classic debut, Richard Swift, Anathema, Bobby Hutcherson, three Blueboy repress-es, Clifford Jordan, Blue Chemise, and two from Royal Trux.
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Dec 4, 2023 · The best reissues of 2023 include gargantuan box sets and back-to-basics vinyl among a smorgasbord of essential releases.
