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Yesterday, Analogplanet sent around to vinyl producers worldwide our annual pressing plant totals request.

We've heard back from most of the European factories and one American pressing plant and the total number of long playing records pressed in 2015 so far reported comes to (drum roll) 30,902,000. That's THIRTY MILLION PLUS.

With more to come. This won't be updated again until we have complete totals.

Nielsen/Soundscan reports that a total of 11,900,000 LPs were sold in America in 2015. Once again I think they are not counting much beyond their fingers and toes.

BTW: the photo is of stacks of lacquers taken at the old Elizabeth, New Jersey TRANSCO lacquer manufacturing facility back in the early 1990's.