Record Store Day Drives Impressive Sales Boost

"Record Store Day is a great way to shine the spotlight on the amazing
experience that independent record stores bring to music consumers,"
David Bakula,SVP at Nielsen Entertainment,said in a statement. "With year-over-year
growth, and exclusive packages in a format that consumers value with
rich content, Record Store Day will continue to be an event that drives
music consumers to independent record stores."  Check out these impressive stats:

• Total album sales increased 60% over the previous week
• Vinyl LPs at independent record stores sold 200,000 units vs. 147,000 units last year
  
• 244,000 vinyl albums were sold during the entire week from all retailers
• Vinyl albums were 37% of all album sales in any format that week
  
• 14 vinyl albums sold more than 1,000 copies each
• 82% of vinyl LPs last week were sold at independent record stores 
• Album sales
  in all formats at indie stores was up 59% percent over sales
  from the previous week