Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

The spike in vinyl album sales in 2014 can be attributed to the sale of rock records. Three quarters of all vinyl albums sold that year were from the rock genre. The best-selling titles included releases from The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and several classic recordings by heritage artists such as Oasis.

In response to the continued increase in demand for vinyl, the Official Charts Company launched the UK’s first ever weekly Official Vinyl Charts in 2015. LP sales in 2015 reached a 21-year high to 2.1 million units.

Bowie was the biggest-selling vinyl artist of 2016. Five of Bowie’s albums posthumously featured in the top 30 best-sellers. Blackstar was last year’s most popular vinyl recording, selling twice as many copies as the previous year’s vinyl best-seller, Adele’s 25.

2015 was the first time that vinyl album sales surpassed digital download sales. In week 48 of 2016, the record industry made £2.4 million from record sales while downloads took in 2.1 million.

Since 2015 vinyl sales have continued to increase year on year –  the vinyl revival may have been fuelled by the hipster scene, but the continuing growth of record sales, suggests that it is more than just a passing trend. Vinyl buying is no longer restricted to baby-boomers for whom the analogue format affords nostalgia. A new generation of engaged music fans value the tangibility of the record, which offers them a retreat from the passive experience of streaming and downloading. Vinyl’s rising popularity, particularly in the digital age, has confirmed the format’s timelessness.

So fire up that turntable and start spinning…let’s go.