“If you want to make any kind of return on your investment, then vinyl is the only game in town. For the majority of far-left-leaning music fans, vinyl is the way to get their money. The only way you can get money from fans of more leftfield music is through t-shirts and vinyl (and cassettes, to some freaks). “The only reason why this matters and that it’s stressful is because no-one buys CDs any more. “None of this would be an issue if people could just make money from digital music,” he argued. However, he added that the real root of the problem is less of a vinyl crisis and more of “a crisis around the monetisation of music”. Pretty much every artist in the world is releasing an album between September 2021 and September 2022.”Īdmitting that “labels are now even assuming that the lead times will grow even more”, Cohen said that this would have a knock-on effect on independent artists’ creativity if they need to rush things through in order to guarantee that their vinyl can be made during a reasonable time frame.
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There’s a weird bottleneck of albums being released after a delay because of coronavirus, and there were also a lot more albums made during the pandemic too because they couldn’t tour. There are a weird number of factors coming together at once. “As a manager, it’s been a huge source of stress.
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Trying to get stuff done six months ahead of time is a big ask, now it’s much more than that. “If you work in the independent music world, everything is very last-minute anyway. “I’m worried about it and it’s insane,” he told NME. He told NME about how getting vinyl made has “always been a bit of palaver”, but even now he’s trying to plot an album release that won’t be possible until 2023 at the earliest. Josh Cohen runs the independent record label Memorials of Distinction, and also manages artists including Porridge Radio and Caroline. Social media has since seen a number of artists, labels and music fans calling out Adele for taking up the resources - but the problems run much deeper, according to industry insiders. While doing an interview, has revealed that he had to hurry his new album release because Adele’s team booked most of the vinyl factories in the world for her new album, 30, which drops on November 19th.
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It was like me, Coldplay, Adele, Taylor, ABBA, Elton : all of us were trying to get our vinyl printed at the same time.” Reports have emerged in recent weeks of a crisis facing vinyl-lovers, with sources telling Variety that more than 500,000 copies of Adele’s long-awaited new album ’30’ have been pressed – causing a huge backlog and problems in the production line for others wishing to get LPs manufactured with the world’s limited resources.Īs even Ed Sheeran told Australian radio hosts Kyle and Jackie O about getting his recent album ‘=’ pressed: “So you have to do it like really upfront - and Adele had basically booked out all the vinyl factories, so we had to get a slot and get our album in there. Figures from the music industry have spoken to NME about what’s really causing the delays in manufacturing vinyl and artists getting their albums made – arguing that the blame does not lie at the feet of Adele.