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Producers Trying to Keep Up with Growing Vinyl Record Sales

The invention of the Compact Disc (CD) caused vinyl music records to fall out of popularity over 30 years ago, A                          . The COVID-19 pandemic only increased sales. In 2021, money earned from “vinyl” sales was greater than $1 billion for the first time B                          . Vinyl records, made out of a kind of plastic, had been the main method for listening to music until the 1980s, when CDs took their place, C                          . Many of the new customers are old enough to have listened to records during their childhood or young adulthood. But the recent increase in “vinyl” sales is not just from older buyers. A younger generation is buying records.

More current artists are meeting the new demand. They have begun releasing their newest records on vinyl D                          . Because vinyl record sales were so low for so long, the industry has had to make major changes to keep up with increasing demand. Major record labels are restarting their old manufacturing plants E                          . There are now around 40 active vinyl plants in the U.S. and most of them are small. They cannot make records as fast as people are buying them. It can take six to eight months for an order of records to be filled. Manufacturers are also dealing with shortages of materials, F                          . The answer to these problems is not as simple as opening more factories. The machines needed to create vinyl records are rare. In the 1980s, many manufacturers destroyed or took apart their vinyl pressing machines.

1. whereas the whole process of modern technological revolution began
2. but sales of vinyl records have been growing for the past 10 years
3. since CDs took over the market
4. as well as the normal electronic releases
5. while smaller independent vinyl presses are also starting up
6. which can slow production even more
7. and as a result, many factories that produced vinyl records were shut down