Month: March 2017
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Abbey Road Mixing Desk
$1.8 MILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Bonhams Auction House has reported via Twitter that the recording console used to record Pink Floyd’s 1972, 15–times platinum album Dark Side of the Moon has just sold at auction for $1,807,500. https://reverb.com/au/news/abbey-road-recording-console-used-on-dark-side-of-the-moon-sells-for-1-point-8-million-dollars
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Rise Up
Not all the news is streaming though. Vinyl sales continue to grow exponentially, almost doubling between 2015 and 2016, to a high for this century of $15 million. This is impressive in its own way though still not much more than 10 per cent of streaming revenue. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/streaming-takes-over-from-downloads-as-the-future-of-music-20170328-gv8ls4.html