According to a new icm poll nearly 50 of vinyl buyers are under the age of 35.
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We are now undoubtedly in an age of a new breed of collector.
The figures are interesting particularly when combined with the news from earlier this year.
In a recent icm poll shared exclusively with the bbc it was discovered that 48 of people who bought vinyl in the last month have admitted they are yet to play it with 7 not even owning a turntable.
An icm poll in april revealed that almost 50 of people who bought a vinyl album the previous month had yet to listen to it.
Additionally 7 didn t even own a turntable.
Approximately 16 of people buying vinyl records are aged 18 24 and 33 are aged 25 34.
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Some 7 of those surveyed said they didn t even own a turntable while a further 41 said they have one but don t use it.
But new research suggests that while more people notably young people are buying into vinyl a lot of them aren t actually playing the records.
Icm unlimited interviewed a representative sample of 2 002 adults across great britain aged 18 between 3rd 8th october 2018.
When the cd became common a lot of people got rid of their vinyl because they thought vinyl was dead.
A study found 48 of people who buy vinyl don t even listen to the records.
She was probably about 5 years old when that happened.
Half of consumers say they listened to an album online before buying a vinyl copy according to an icm poll shared exclusively with the bbc.
She also came from a family that didn t really listen to music.
But the format only accounts for 3 of the total music market and in 2015 a bbc icm poll found that almost half 48 of the vinyl records people buy never get played.
Perhaps one of the biggest alarm bells comes from a bbc icm poll conducted earlier this year where it was revealed that while people who use music streaming services are more likely to buy vinyl only 52 of them said they actually played the record.
I feel there are more teens nowadays who know what vinyl is than at the end of the 90 s.
There is a growing trend of people who purchase vinyl for collecting purposes.