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Nielsen/MRC reported that this year between Friday, November 27th and Thursday, December 3rd, vinyl record sales jumped 56% compared to the same period last year. 1.253 million records sold in that week, which was the largest sales volume of any week in almost thirty years.

Harry Styles had the #1 album with 15,000 copies sold. Once Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas came in second, Queen's Greatest Hits 3rd, followed by Billie Eilish's When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? and in fifth place Taylor Swift's Folklore. Discogs reported 11.1 million records, new and used so far in 2020, which was an approximately 33% sales jump. Meanwhile at this year's virtual "Making Vinyl" event a statistician said that almost 50% of new record buyers were female and that almost half of all records bought were not played. Now that's downright depressing. I say play depressing, dammit!