Staying in is the new going out

One of the first statistics published in January, the country’s main music industry body – the British Phonographic Industry – is keen to tell the world just how many records, CDs, downloads, streamed songs and even cassette sales happened across the UK in the previous year. This year was no exception, but it showed just how significant the impact COVID-19 had on the music business in 2020… but for once, it wasn’t all bad! Sales of vinyl LPs have been on the increase for some time, but in recent years the rate of increase had slowed significantly. This year, however, …