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 5th August 2018, 10:24 AM
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Upcoming cassette releases
24.08.18 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Gilbert O'Sullivan 07.09.18 Lenny Kravitz - Raise Vibration 26.10.18 Boy George & Culture Club - Life 02.11.18 Prodigy - No Tourists 23.11.18 Sountrack - The Rick and Morty Soundtrack |
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27th September 2018, 08:06 PM
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I’ve pre-ordered The Prodigy today!
 Also, the OCC published this a little while back... QUOTE You may remember that last year, the humble cassette was experiencing a mini resurgence, driven mostly by acts making limited runs of their albums on the retro format as a collector's item for fans.
Cassette sales more than doubled last year, although their share of the music market is still tiny (less than 1%), with just under 22,000 sold in 2017. The Official Charts Company can today confirm that the number looks set to grow further with cassette sales already up 90% in 2018 compared to the same time last year. Just over 18,500 copies have already been snapped up since the beginning of the year across more than 80 releases. In the same period last year, just 9,753 cassettes had been purchased. UK annual cassette sales volumes – last 5 years YEAR VOLUMES SOLD 2013 4,333 2014 5,699 2015 5,801 2016 10,912 2017 22,011 While the numbers pale in comparison to vinyl's resurgence over the last five years, similar factors are at play. The appeal of a cassette is as a rare collectable, and also for followers of less mainstream genres it can be seen as a way of preserving exclusivity. But which releases are powering the current revival? The UK's best-selling cassette of 2018 so far goes to Kylie Minogue's latest album Golden with sales of 2,847, according to Official Charts Company data. The singer released a limited run of the glitter-gold clear cassette the week of the record's general release, helping it debut at Number 1 back in April. 2018's second biggest cassette so far is Guardians Of The Galaxy - Awesome Mix 2, which took the title as last year's best-seller. The collection features classic songs taken from the sequel released last year, including ELO’s Mr. Blue Sky and Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain. Close behind in third is Snow Patrol's latest album Wildness, while 30 Seconds To Mars are fourth with their current set America. Rounding off the Top 5 is Resistance is Futile, the latest album from Manic Street Preachers, which debuted at Number 2 on the Official Albums Chart in April. More records released this year feature in the Top 20 list, including Arctic Monkeys' Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, Palo Santo by Years & Years, and Blossoms' Cool Like You, while the oldest studio album in the Top 20 goes to AC/DC's 1980 record Back In Black, which was reissued on cassette for this year's Record Store Day in April. “We’ve already seen a massive surge in vinyl sales and it looks as if cassettes are experiencing something similar," Martin Talbot, chief executive of the Official Charts Company, comments. "While the sales are off a low base, it is remarkable that UK music fans have already snapped up almost as many cassettes in 2018 as they did in the whole of 2017 - and almost four times the levels of 3/4 years ago”. The Official Top 20 best-selling cassettes of 2018 so far: POS TITLE ARTIST RELEASED 1 GOLDEN KYLIE MINOGUE 2018 2 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY - AWESOME MIX 2 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 2017 3 WILDNESS SNOW PATROL 2018 4 AMERICA 30 SECONDS TO MARS 2018 5 RESISTANCE IS FUTILE MANIC STREET PREACHERS 2018 6 ST. JUDE RE WIRED COURTEENERS 2018 7 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY - AWESOME MIX 1 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 2014 8 YOUNGBLOOD 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER 2018 9 COOL LIKE YOU BLOSSOMS 2018 10 BUILD A TOWER SLOW READERS CLUB 2018 11 TRANQUILITY BASE HOTEL & CASINO ARCTIC MONKEYS 2018 12 PALO SANTO YEARS & YEARS 2018 13 BE MORE KIND FRANK TURNER 2018 14 BACK IN BLACK AC/DC 1980 15 THE 5.98 EP - GARAGE DAYS RE-REVISITED METALLICA 2018 16 YOU ARE SOMEONE ELSE FICKLE FRIENDS 2018 17 WORLD BEYOND ERASURE 2018 18 TECHNOLOGY DON BROCO 2018 19 STAYING AT TAMARA'S GEORGE EZRA 2018 20 CALL THE COMET JOHNNY MARR 2018 |
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27th September 2018, 09:40 PM
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Recent adds to my collection:
Neil Diamond - Jonathan Livingstone Seagull OST Paul Weller - Stanley Road Suede - Electricity [single] Garbage - Version 2.0 The Pretenders - The Singles Pink Floyd - A Collection Of Great Dance Songs (cream cassette) George Harrison - Cloud Nine Simply Red - Fairground [single] Various Artists - The Magnificent Seven (1996 Melody Maker compilation featuring a Radiohead rarity) Whitney Houston - The Preacher's Wife OST This post has been edited by DalekTurret32: 27th September 2018, 09:41 PM |
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27th September 2018, 09:45 PM
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I'm going to have to head to my local charity shop this weekend to see what finds I can get!
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29th September 2018, 04:41 PM
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I pre-ordered my first cassette the other day! The 1975's A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships.
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3rd October 2018, 06:19 PM
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Paul Heaton's Best of... is getting a cassette release. Signed copies available from the official store.
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3rd October 2018, 06:40 PM
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Since this little revival I've bought:
Troye Sivan - Blue Neighbourhood Kylie Minogue - Golden Love, Simon (Original Soundtrack) Ariana Grande - Sweetener Next up: I've pre-ordered the special edition of Kylie's Golden! |
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3rd October 2018, 06:55 PM
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I’m waiting for Kylie to become available again but just can’t get it anywhere without paying extortionate prices
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9th October 2018, 05:25 PM
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FIVE YEARS OF THE TURRET 15-20
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Cassette Store Day will be coming this Saturday.
Releases I'm excited for: Max Blansjaar - Spit It Out The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike Spare Snare - Sounds |
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25th October 2018, 06:44 PM
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QUOTE(28 Daleks Later @ Oct 9 2018, 06:25 PM)  Cassette Store Day will be coming this Saturday. Releases I'm excited for: Max Blansjaar - Spit It Out The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike Spare Snare - Sounds Is there a full release list? |
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26th October 2018, 01:54 AM
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FIVE YEARS OF THE TURRET 15-20
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QUOTE(Shaky Fan @ Oct 25 2018, 07:44 PM) Is there a full release list? I dunno! I think I stumbled upon one. This day already happened a few weeks ago |
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29th October 2018, 06:44 PM
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Just purely as a matter of interest, how much do new release cassettes retail for? Just seen Golden on Amazon marketplace for £49!
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29th October 2018, 08:39 PM
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Usually around £7 for a new release. Can be £10 or more for some! Golden is quite difficult to get at the moment so I’m not surprised it’s going for that price.
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1st November 2018, 07:42 PM
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Rick Astley's was £5 plus £2 p&p on his official store. That's signed and including a download copy of the album as well.
The new Queen soundtrack album was £15 in HMV last week. |
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9th November 2018, 03:16 PM
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The new Prodigy album is available on cassette now
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8th December 2018, 02:45 PM
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The 1975's A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships sold 7,147 casettes in its first week - the highest since Now 52 in January 2002!
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29th December 2018, 10:59 PM
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Take That's Odyssey is available from their online store as a double album.
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17th January 2019, 08:48 PM
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Bryan Adams - Shine A Light released on 1st March
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1st March 2019, 09:47 PM
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Emma Bunton's new album is available on both pink cassette and blue cassette from her store.
https://emmabunton.tmstor.es/index.php?page...amp;section=all |
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23rd April 2019, 01:06 PM
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Recently added Talking Heads' Fear Of Music and Ian Dury's New Boots And Panties to my collection.
Played them last week, and both of them were fantastic albums. |
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