{"id":22707,"date":"2015-09-02T00:04:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T22:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/?p=22707"},"modified":"2015-09-02T11:50:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T09:50:38","slug":"uk-supermarket-chain-tesco-to-reintroduce-vinyl-in-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/uk-supermarket-chain-tesco-to-reintroduce-vinyl-in-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Supermarket Chain Tesco To Reintroduce Vinyl In Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It seems the vinyl resurgence is taking ever-greater forms. After the wax hype already\u00a0made its way into the stock of various hipster clothing firms, it now seems that the last bastion of commercialization is about\u00a0to be conquered: the supermarket. Tesco, the biggest supermarket chain in the UK, announced this week that they will begin selling vinyl again, starting on September 4.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael Mulligan, chief music buyer of Tesco, told Engadget that their venture into the vinyl market is the &#8220;logical step&#8221; for the multi-billion dollar corporation. They will mark the occasion with the release of heavy metal band Iron Maiden&#8217;s new LP &#8220;The Book Of Souls&#8221;. After this initial kick-off the company will gradually start to offer a growing selection of vinyl records across a selection of stores throughout the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Even though vinyl sales still only account for 2% of the total UK music market, sales are on the rise as never before. Last January vinyl sales hit\u00a0a peak of 1.3 million units sold, a number that has not been reached since 1995.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/various-artists\/87983\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NME<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the vinyl resurgence is taking ever-greater forms. After the wax hype already\u00a0made its way into the stock of various hipster clothing firms, it now seems that the last bastion of commercialization is about\u00a0to be conquered: the supermarket. Tesco, the biggest supermarket chain in the UK, announced this week that they will begin selling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7006,6565,41,7005],"class_list":["post-22707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","tag-supermarket","tag-tesco","tag-vinyl","tag-wax","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}