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Turntables Were Amazon’s Highest Selling Audio Product This Christmas

Although the RIAA’s 2015 mid-year recorded music revenues report showed that vinyl sales are outperforming streaming services, some commentators argue that the rise of interest in vinyl is a fad.

Fad or not, Amazon’s holiday sales figures, released on Monday, showed that their highest-selling audio product this holiday season was a turntable: the Jensen JTA-230 3-speed stereo turntable with built-in speakers, to be exact. At just under $50, it’s not surprising that it sold more than the Yamaha Wi-Fi Network AV Receiver with AirPlay ($379.95) and the SONOS PLAY:1 ($194.90), but these are still interesting figures, nonetheless. You can read the entire Amazon report here.

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Notably, the Vinyl Factory reported back in November that this year’s vinyl sales were “on track for their biggest total in over two decades.”

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