Latest / Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest / These Two Pop Superstars Had The Best Selling Vinyl Albums Of 2020
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. While music sales have
- 0:04Speaker 1: been largely replaced by streaming over the past decade, one
- 0:07Speaker 1: sector of traditional album sales has been steadily rising, and
- 0:10Speaker 1: that's vinyl. In fact, as hard as it may be
- 0:12Speaker 1: to believe, last year was the best year ever for
- 0:14Speaker 1: vinyl in record sales in thirty years, up a massive
- 0:18Speaker 1: from twenty nineteen, with over twenty seven million records sold
- 0:21Speaker 1: nationwide and a very familiar name claiming the best selling
- 0:24Speaker 1: twelve twenty Harry Styles Fine Line was number one, with
- 0:29Speaker 1: over two hundred thousand vinyl records being sold. Billy eilish
- 0:32Speaker 1: nineteen debut was number two, with almost two hundred thousand
- 0:35Speaker 1: copies being sold. What's also interesting is Billy, Harry and
- 0:38Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar number ten are the only three current artists
- 0:41Speaker 1: inside the top ten. Other entries belonged to Marley, Queen,
- 0:46Speaker 1: Fleetwood Mac that's direct from Hollywood.