END OF A DECADE
As we come to the end of another decade, i've been reflecting on how much the musical landscape has changed in the last ten years, both in the music itself and how we listen to it. Not only has streaming completely altered the listening habits and tastes of the younger generations, but the dominance of online listening and downloading music came up against an old format that everyone thought was consigned to history, or at least just the preserve of high-end hi-fi obsessives and collectors: King Vinyl was back, and sales of the once dominant format have increased year on year since the middle of the decade, so much so the compilers of the charts had to create a Vinyl sales chart. The yearly Record Store Day - celebrating independent record stores around the world with scores of highly sought after limited edition album and single releases, and the culture of the record store itself - grows more in popularity each year. The decline in the independent record store has been reversed,