What Year Did Vinyl Records Stop Being Made

Before the cassette tape cd and mp3 player 45s were the perfect portable personal music medium.

What year did vinyl records stop being made. It had co existed with the phonograph cylinder from the late 1880s and had effectively superseded it by around 1912. I d say vinyl was replaced by cassette as the dominant format somewhere around 84 85 or so. An era that lasted 40 wonderful years. In 1948 the columbia company had perfected the 12 long playing vinyl disc.

The vinyl revival is the renewed interest and increased sales of vinyl records or gramophone records that has been taking place in the western world since about 2007. Spinning at 33 rpm the new format could play up to 25 minutes per side. When were the last produced. Tapes were everywhere in those days.

The analogue format made of polyvinyl chloride had been the main vehicle for the commercial distribution of pop music from the 1950s until the 1980s and 1990s when they were largely replaced by the compact disc cd. Recently i bought some old indian 78 rpm records which were made around 65 66. As for vinyl i stopped seeing new vinyl lps in chain outlets altogether by 91 maybe even earlier. When did they stop.

Or are they still being made. In an email to spin united record s millar points out that a great deal of vinyl being made in the mid 90s was promotional vinyl that wasnt really meant for sale thus wouldn t have a. This new record medium also had a much lower level of surface noise than did its older shellac cousin. I thought that around that time the 78 rpm were completely vanished and replaced by 33 45 rpm records.

Generally 78s are made of a brittle material which uses a shellac resin thus their other name is shellac records. So that makes me wonder if 78 rpm were made well in the 1970s. During and after world war ii when shellac supplies were extremely limited some 78 rpm records were pressed in vinyl instead of shellac wax particularly the six minute 12 78 rpm records produced by v disc for distribution to. The last american commercially released 78 rpm singles appeared in 1959 however they were still made for children s records and older jukeboxes until 1964.

However columbia s big rival rca victor then produced the seven inch 45 rpm vinyl disc. The phonograph disc record was the primary medium used for music reproduction throughout the 20th century. Unlike the standard 10 inch 78 rpm record which could play about 3 1 2 minutes on one side the new lp could hold 15 plus minutes on one side of a 10 inch record and up to 25 minutes on one side of a 12 inch disc. And across the globe around six to seven months after its initial debut in 1983.

In the mid 2000s gradually records made of any material began to be called vinyl records or simply vinyl. And thus began the era of the 45s.