Video není dostupné.
Omlouváme se.

Year in Review: The Top-Selling Records of 2021

Sdílet
Vložit
  • čas přidán 15. 08. 2024
  • 2021 has been a wild year for the Vinyl Record Industry, and to round out this crazy year Chad Kassem recounts some of the highest performing records and SACDs to pass through Acoustic Sounds.
    00:00 - Intro and Christmas Picks
    2:23 - Top Analogue Productions Titles
    8:11 - Top Non-Analogue Productions Titles
    18:49 - Top SACDs
    Check out the links below for more great Audiophile Content From Acoustic Sounds!
    Acoustic Sounds Home:
    store.acoustic...
    Subscribe to our Newsletter:
    store.acoustic...
    Vinyl Vault Home:
    store.acoustic...
    Facebook:
    www.facebook.c...
    Instagram:
    www.instagram....
    Twitter:
    vi...

Komentáře • 113

  • @RichTeer
    @RichTeer Před 2 lety +23

    At about the 20 minute mark: did Chad just hint at a possible upcoming Pink Floyd UHQR?! 🤔
    Merry Xmas to you and yours, and everyone at Acoustic Sounds, and thanks for everything you do for us vinyl-loving audiophiles!

    • @R3TR0R4V3
      @R3TR0R4V3 Před 2 lety +2

      I wish! 🤞 Someone else mentioned it's Animals on SACD, so far anyway.

    • @seansrecords
      @seansrecords Před 2 lety +4

      animals needs a proper vinyl release but i dont think chad will do it as the recording isnt very audiophile

    • @philipstenklov3140
      @philipstenklov3140 Před 2 lety

      I think so😉🤓

    • @ginovairo6487
      @ginovairo6487 Před 2 lety

      That would be awesome and is what I assumed he was hinting at.

    • @MrsGoutfire
      @MrsGoutfire Před 2 lety +4

      I’d rather have him do the Zep catalog first!

  • @johnmarchington3146
    @johnmarchington3146 Před 2 lety +7

    The three Dire Straits Mobile Fidelity SACDs (Love Over Gold, Communiqué and Brothers In Arms) I bought from you recently are simply stunning. Please keep them coming!!

  • @agalleyne
    @agalleyne Před 2 lety +4

    Chad is a national treasure. Keep the good stuff coming, I'll buy it all.
    All the best to you and yours in 2022.

  • @ginntonic123
    @ginntonic123 Před 2 lety +5

    Happy Holidays Chad ! Thanks for an awesome year in Audiophile Pressings

  • @dcrook232323
    @dcrook232323 Před 2 lety +4

    Chad,
    Great vid. We're enjoying ALL your AS Series releases to date, we've got every one, and are looking forward to to the next set in 🤞 January?? After work yesterday, we had a "Mingus night" last night.💪 👍
    Suppose it goes without saying that we're owners/listeners of a majority of your AP reissues going back a few decades.
    I mentioned it a few weeks ago and you echoed the comment in your "Prize Fight" vid w/ Michael and Mike last week; sharing the "sausage making" is fantastic and you sharing specific vinyl sales #s like in this vid is important, educational, and a worthwhile effort. FYI.
    👏👏

  • @larrycasey3587
    @larrycasey3587 Před 2 lety +9

    Chad, I know you have never heard this but when are you cats releasing The Led Zeppelin box set again? The Doors titles I have purchased have been just flat ass outstanding.

  • @mlblue5355
    @mlblue5355 Před 2 lety +2

    Is that Zeppelin I on the shelf a hint?? You got the Doors, I know you can get Zeppelin! I heard that Jimmy is still tracking down different pressings of Zeppelin albums. I bet he would love a UHQR pressing! By the way, I love the Doors 45 RPM pressings that you did! I can’t wait for the Doors UHQR! Have a beautiful, safe, fun, amazing listening holiday season!

  • @Fatdogrecords
    @Fatdogrecords Před 2 lety +2

    All the best Chad
    Thankyou for increasing my credit card bill 😄

  • @GIBKEL
    @GIBKEL Před 2 lety +1

    I would love to hear your origin story sometime. Where love and commerce comes along at the right time and tickles those olds late 70’s memories of of my Marantz 6110 and Tusk in my small room with speakers that took up the corners.
    I have to admit, I can’t keep up with all these different pressings. Makes collecting a few old guitars pretty easy in comparison. It’s been a hell of a year and what a catalog you’ve put together.

  • @rcpsammy7186
    @rcpsammy7186 Před 2 lety +7

    How about a LONG OVERDUE LP RUN OF, MEDDLE???

  • @KorbenDenver
    @KorbenDenver Před 2 lety +14

    Sweeeeet baby jesus! Pink Floyd is coming! Pink Floyd is coming!!!

    • @D.E.E.P.Y.
      @D.E.E.P.Y. Před 2 lety +2

      Yeah! Can say it's confirmed, just need to see what and when. Pretty sure it would be all-analog release.

    • @therealdonelaitis
      @therealdonelaitis Před 2 lety

      Where in this video was that confirmed?

    • @pinkrudy
      @pinkrudy Před 2 lety +1

      it animals on SACD. its already been leaked.

  • @djjoeykmusic
    @djjoeykmusic Před 2 lety +1

    Happy Holidays Chad!
    Wish you and the staff all the best!

  • @mcintoshkid
    @mcintoshkid Před 2 lety

    great records,thankyou,greetings from switzerland, unfortunately i can not get those records in my country

  • @tobymummert3035
    @tobymummert3035 Před 2 lety +1

    Although Miles Davis Kind of Blue is the biggest selling Jazz album of all time and deservingly so, Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out is and always will be the greatest Jazz album of all time. The way Dave Brubeck took all those time changes and structures and thrown together and made a coherent, wonderful Jazz album just absolutely astounds me every single time I play it which is quite often. I prefer to listen to the mono version while I prefer to listen to the stereo of Miles Davis Kind of Blue. Which incidentally both of those albums were recorded at Columbia studios in 1959 and we're both released in 1959 so there you go. 1959 was the year that true Jazz was born! Those two albums from the same year set the standard for so many more jazz artists of our modern time!

  • @tweakerman
    @tweakerman Před 2 lety +1

    Love your pressing & sacd's chad, happy Christmas👍

  • @ernesttricarico6402
    @ernesttricarico6402 Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for the video and happy holidays to everyone there

  • @matthewstevens4155
    @matthewstevens4155 Před 2 lety +7

    Get the Skynyrd first album back on the press please!

  • @michaelrenwick5042
    @michaelrenwick5042 Před 2 lety

    Yes!!! Im so glad I watched to the end. Chad is bursting to tell us about the new UHQR's - I smell Floyd! Love you AS/QRP/Chad. Keep'm coming!

  • @thevinylmuseum2958
    @thevinylmuseum2958 Před 2 lety

    If there is one go to list for Top 2021 records sold , it would be yours, Chad. You have the facts & numbers to back it up. Happy Holidays and all the best for 2022.

  • @samhill2655
    @samhill2655 Před 2 lety +1

    Love the shade thrown at United Pressing. They deserve it. 😂

  • @The90sGamingGuy
    @The90sGamingGuy Před 2 lety

    Thank you for the great releases over the past five years.

  • @jeffreywoodke
    @jeffreywoodke Před 2 lety +1

    Haha Chad throwing some shade on the BN Classics with the flimsy jackets

  • @djjoeykmusic
    @djjoeykmusic Před 2 lety

    Great information! Awesome break down
    Thank you Chad

  • @djjoeykmusic
    @djjoeykmusic Před 2 lety

    Hi Chad, great video!
    Thank you so much! I really enjoy your videos
    Nice run down
    Have a wonderful one

  • @tonynewman1694
    @tonynewman1694 Před 2 lety

    Love the video. Hope you have an amazing Xmas and new year. Can't wait for the 22 releases to be announced. There are so many releases I would love to see but hate getting my hopes. Looking forward to the Jethro Tull 45 rpm.

  • @qwertyuio8965
    @qwertyuio8965 Před 2 lety

    Agree with Chad on the "Time Out" Brubeck pressing. It is the best of all time and will never be beat, hands down. Single best sounding jazz record in my collection and even embarrasses the UQHR Miles Davis record in terms off quality and price.

  • @s.t.e.r.e.o.
    @s.t.e.r.e.o. Před 2 lety

    Your posts make my day

  • @andershammer9307
    @andershammer9307 Před 2 lety +1

    Love to try one of the tapes as I have 24 reel to reel machines including a 2 track 15 IPS Revox but I can't spend the money.

  • @UberPilot
    @UberPilot Před 2 lety +3

    At 20:20 ……………….BOOM…..

  • @Josal
    @Josal Před 2 lety

    Great video chat 👍🏽👍🏽🤙🏽

  • @oceanskyseaofblue
    @oceanskyseaofblue Před 2 lety

    Chad! How are you??!! I BLUE HEAVEN SO MUCH! Missing live music! Bonnie

  • @Gabesmusicdiscography
    @Gabesmusicdiscography Před 2 lety

    Love the honesty

  • @sidvicious3129
    @sidvicious3129 Před 2 lety

    Chad you are simply put killing it. I just got my two copies of John Coltrane Cressant and Village at the Vanguard and they are simply put outstanding. Chad I can think of one record that would sell out quicker than the Miles Davis and be a Top Seller for you if you could get the rights to it. If People found out that Acoustic Sounds was coming out with John Coltrane's Blue Train the hype and sells would be tremendous. Miles Davis has been done, but Blue Train has not. Blue Train in an Audiophile UHQR form reissue hasn't been done not even by Bluenote Records. Heck if Acoustic sounds came with Blue Train in regular form, it would be a hit.

  • @R3TR0R4V3
    @R3TR0R4V3 Před 2 lety +2

    Damn, it's a shame y'all didn't get to press Let It Be. Unfortunately we got stuck with Canadian GZ pressings here in the States. At least Europe got theirs pressed at Optimal, which I'm currently trying to hunt down.. That being said, if you have the Optimal pressings, I'll definitely buy a copy! 👍

    • @Jaffacall3251
      @Jaffacall3251 Před 2 lety

      The original made/pressed in the EU Red and Blue albums from 2014 are commanding huge premiums due to their quality, they are still in print but made in Canada, horrible reviews on these pressings! I wish chad was pressing these! The original beatles red/blue from the 70's were not cut from the masters and feature fake stereo, the original reissue pressings was the first time they were cut from the masters and in real stereo, AAA greatness ruined by bad pressing it's a real shame.

    • @R3TR0R4V3
      @R3TR0R4V3 Před 2 lety

      @@Jaffacall3251 yep, those 2014 Red & Blue albums are real winners.. They sound phenomenal. I'm sure glad I snagged those before they go up anymore. They were hovering around $50-60 last I looked just a few months ago, but who knows nowadays.

  • @seansrecords
    @seansrecords Před 2 lety

    my online retailer in the uk had the uhqr miles advertised for october then it got pushed to 31.12 , hoping they get it - and i can get one !

  • @gustercc
    @gustercc Před 2 lety +2

    So,… No one is going to mention the Led Zeppelin I sitting over his left shoulder in the background??? Is Chad trying to drop a subtle hint?

  • @mikecoffee100
    @mikecoffee100 Před 2 lety

    Mingus 5 is An Awesome album Thank You

  • @Digginbehindthedikes
    @Digginbehindthedikes Před 2 lety

    In the recent discussion with Fremer and Esposito they were mentions of a reissue program involving those Prestige titles that have been done before by Acoustic Sounds. Hope that's true man. Those were great!

  • @EvanVincent.
    @EvanVincent. Před 2 lety +2

    I love that Chad was excited about not getting the united pressing of Adele. He pulls no punches!

  • @Twin_Hook
    @Twin_Hook Před 2 lety +10

    UHQR DSOTM, perhaps?! :D

    • @jackiepuppet9289
      @jackiepuppet9289 Před 2 lety +3

      I’ve been holding out buying that current one in print with hopes something like UHQR or any audiophile type release would be forthcoming with the 50th anniversary in 2023

    • @rcpsammy7186
      @rcpsammy7186 Před 2 lety +1

      Please....the MFSL of that is plentiful and cheap, and WAY overplayed and overdone.
      What needs to be pressed is, Meddle.
      That had a small run from mofi and asking prices are a down-payment on a car.
      Meddle all the way. It's a no brainer.

    • @Twin_Hook
      @Twin_Hook Před 2 lety +1

      @@jackiepuppet9289 Same here. I don't want to shell out for even a 30th Anniversary pressing. It's ridiculous.

    • @R3TR0R4V3
      @R3TR0R4V3 Před 2 lety +1

      It's shame how much the 30th anniversary pressings cost nowadays. Ridiculous indeed! Never did land a copy yet either, so hopefully AP will save the day eventually, Meddle included! 🤞

  • @playbackamusicloversjourne8620

    I'd never listened to it before so started in on it via CZcams. I was surprised at how similar he sounds to Tom Waits on Dachau Blues. I had to look up the credits to make sure it wasn't him. Interesting - I think Avant-Garde Rock is the right term for it.

  • @mikecoffee100
    @mikecoffee100 Před 2 lety

    Heyy Man Enjoying the videos where are the Herbie Hancock Corrected Maiden Voyage

  • @vinylrules4838
    @vinylrules4838 Před 2 lety

    I have the Nat King Cole Love is the Thing on reel to reel. It is incredible.

  • @lawrencetomczyk9677
    @lawrencetomczyk9677 Před 2 lety +5

    Im predicting: Led Zep UHQRs in 45 RPM

    • @vmvlev
      @vmvlev Před 2 lety

      nop .. like the kind of blue uhqr .. first 33rpm and after that the 45 rpm version

    • @mickeymouse8210
      @mickeymouse8210 Před 2 lety

      When is the 45 out?
      Where did you find this info?
      If they can do led zep it's long overdue.

    • @vmvlev
      @vmvlev Před 2 lety +1

      @@mickeymouse8210 there is no date for the kind of blue 45 but its comming .. chat already told it in a video .. they also have the mettal parts from the led z classic versions ..

    • @R3TR0R4V3
      @R3TR0R4V3 Před 2 lety

      Please dear god, make it so! 🙏
      I missed out on all those Classic records versions, so if AP eventually does them, that's an instant purchase for me (and _many_ others I'm sure)!

    • @vmvlev
      @vmvlev Před 2 lety +1

      @@R3TR0R4V3 i have the kind of blue and the importand led zed s made by classic records ... and i have the kind of blue uhqr .. and man the kind of blue uhqr is realy better than the classics .. no bad felings on the classic records still love them and how they sound and made ..

  • @johncalvo8420
    @johncalvo8420 Před 2 lety

    I recently ordered the 45rpm Dave Brubeck Time Out album and was dissapointed to hear distortion in piano parts in a few tracks, I now see this is a common issue with this release if you look at the discogs reviews. My question is if this issue can be somehow solved? is this a pressing flaw? master tape wear? or what? Thanks

  • @anytimecowboy
    @anytimecowboy Před 2 lety +2

    Can we please get la woman on UHQR?

  • @jeffwhitehead6268
    @jeffwhitehead6268 Před 2 lety +2

    Craft Records: “We are the only record company to short press Coltrane’s Lush Life in 2021 and piss off thousands in the vinyl community”!
    Chad: “Hold my beer, man”!
    Seriously? Bah Humbug!

    • @acousticsoundsks
      @acousticsoundsks  Před 2 lety +2

      We only recently reacquired the rights to repress this title and had 800 jackets on hand. This title will be going on the press again, but not anytime soon. Sorry if you were not able to get it. It's taking us 6-12 months to get more jackets printed.

    • @bassbymichele
      @bassbymichele Před 2 lety

      @@acousticsoundsks Do you suggest to back order?

  • @bassbymichele
    @bassbymichele Před 2 lety +1

    Lush Life sold out in less than a day! what a shame! couldn't get it..NO restocks? thanks

    • @blakedorman2996
      @blakedorman2996 Před 2 lety

      I believe there will be more, they also said it was being repressed in stereo too, I think?

    • @derosa1989
      @derosa1989 Před 2 lety +1

      @@blakedorman2996 Lush Life was recorded in '57, the master is mono.

    • @jeffwhitehead6268
      @jeffwhitehead6268 Před 2 lety +1

      Chad has said he doesn’t care if people buy multiple copies, only that they sell. With low repress #’s, flippers buying all they want, and no release schedule, we will now be forced to preorder any titles we are interested in individually, doubling the amount we spend on expensive shipping. The message is apparently that with demand so high, and supply so low, there is no need for customer service any longer.

    • @blakedorman2996
      @blakedorman2996 Před 2 lety

      @@jeffwhitehead6268 i don’t buy from flippers. There’s nothing I need that bad.

  • @johnlynch6248
    @johnlynch6248 Před 2 lety +1

    The Wall ???

  • @quinnmarshall8653
    @quinnmarshall8653 Před 2 lety

    I'm really shocked that Art Blakey Big Beat sold more than some of the other BN Classics, like Midnight Blue, Maiden Voyage, Something Else...

  • @spartanjaws1039
    @spartanjaws1039 Před 2 lety

    Any idea when music direct is going to get they’re copies of the KoB UhQR? Ordered it on may 7th and I’m still waiting.

    • @acousticsoundsks
      @acousticsoundsks  Před 2 lety

      Their quantities have been shipped. It is now up to them.

  • @achtungbabythefly
    @achtungbabythefly Před 2 lety

    Will the AP Norah Jones "Come Away With Me" be repressed by QRP after the current batch is sold out? Or is the end of the current batch the end of licensing for that title? Thanks so much for the exceptional work you do at AP/QRP/AS. Cheers!

    • @DC-xx4kv
      @DC-xx4kv Před 2 lety

      Have you read the reviews of that lp on acoustic sounds own website? Way too many negative reviews for me. You might want to read them. ☮️

  • @texasvinyl4950
    @texasvinyl4950 Před 2 lety +1

    The Miles UHQR sounds amazing. Wish you would ditch the box. It adds nothing to the release and takes up a huge amount of space for no reason. That awesome glossy gatefold is all you needed here. I am sure website analytics and sales metrics show the box was a good decision from a business standpoint. But I wish there wasn't the need to "show" how premium the product is with a big box you feel obligated to hang onto.

  • @piotrburczyn9542
    @piotrburczyn9542 Před 2 lety

    Hey Chad! Is there a chance for 33 rpm "It Serves You Right..."?

  • @brentpietrok4758
    @brentpietrok4758 Před 2 lety +2

    So we going to see Pink Floyd on UHQR in 2022?

  • @harrysmusicroom
    @harrysmusicroom Před 2 lety

    would love to see some audiophile Grand Funk Railroad titles

  • @markwilding3828
    @markwilding3828 Před 2 lety

    I'm confused. The current top selling Analogue Productions record on the AS website is Coltrane - Lush Life... A record, that according to Discogs, doesn't exist, availability is "back-ordered' and it's not a 'new arrival' or pre-order... What's up with that?

    • @bassbymichele
      @bassbymichele Před 2 lety

      Hi man. It sold out in less than a day.. couldn't get it as well..I wish I did.. seems like a cursed record to get, first the Small Batch version, then this one

    • @acousticsoundsks
      @acousticsoundsks  Před 2 lety

      We can't control what Discogs doesn't know about. This record came out in 2014, we probably pressed 2-3,000 and it sold out. We recently got the rights to repress the same title and we pressed out the remaining jackets we had left - approximately 800. It sold in a day. We are sorry you weren't able to get one. It is taking us 6-12 months to get jackets printed. This record will be repressed at some point, but probably not anytime soon. I wish I could get our jackets and press our records faster, but it's just not possible.

    • @markwilding3828
      @markwilding3828 Před 2 lety

      @@acousticsoundsks That's what makes record collecting beautiful. You can't have everything you want.

  • @johnbarrington2526
    @johnbarrington2526 Před 2 lety +4

    Chad. You need bifocals bro!

  • @DC-xx4kv
    @DC-xx4kv Před 2 lety +2

    Why did Norah Jones go up so much all the sudden?!!! It’s been pressed for months. Now it’s $50! Profiteering.

    • @R3TR0R4V3
      @R3TR0R4V3 Před 2 lety

      Literally everything went up, records aside.. That's inflation for ya. :/The records only went up $5 though, so that's not unreasonable.

    • @DC-xx4kv
      @DC-xx4kv Před 2 lety

      @@R3TR0R4V3 this was 35 so maybe 40 like on some websites that ran out. Now Chad has just jacked it up another 10, cause he wants to. That’s not inflation it’s a money grab and he’s doing his cry now speech. I have the cd I’ve had since it’s release. Never really listen to it so no sweat for me. It’s the principal. We have the worst inflation in 40 years. I’ll take that $50 and give it to my local rescue mission. Chad, cry now cause the money’s already gone.

    • @DorianPaige00
      @DorianPaige00 Před 2 lety +1

      @@DC-xx4kv It is in the interests of record collectors that Chad raise the price to $50. If he keeps it low, someone else will buy the rest of the stock to flip. If you give Chad that extra money, he can reinvest and/or reap bigger profits. The point is that by paying Chad a little more, you'll get more records.

    • @MrRom92DAW
      @MrRom92DAW Před 2 lety +1

      If you want audiophile records to be a sustainable business then you have to be willing to sustain them. Knowing what goes into making these records, at $50, who is robbing who?

  • @occiclean349
    @occiclean349 Před 2 lety

    More jazz. What a rush.

  • @rorysuire6177
    @rorysuire6177 Před 2 lety

    REELS....MORE REELS!!!

  • @SerafimSmig
    @SerafimSmig Před 2 lety

    Are there still plans to release 45RPM UHQR of Kind of Blue in the near future? 🙏🏻

    • @austinhunt4260
      @austinhunt4260 Před 2 lety +2

      I believe the 45s are either partially or entirely pressed. They’re in one of the marketing videos showing the KOB pressing. From that, we know they’ve at least started.

  • @andreasbauer6652
    @andreasbauer6652 Před 2 lety

    25.000 x 100 $ =2.5Mio $ not so bad ;)

  • @billsmith8739
    @billsmith8739 Před 2 lety

    How about any Jan & Dean !!

  • @UberPilot
    @UberPilot Před 2 lety

    Surfer Girl UHQR would be awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Markymarkvinylnut
    @Markymarkvinylnut Před 2 lety

    Thanks Chad....45rpm UHQR KoB ? When please??? Makes no sense to release just the 33rpm

  • @RF-lz9cd
    @RF-lz9cd Před 2 lety +1

    At 7:02 Nat King Cole. Chad you fluctuate prices like a private seller on Discogs. There’s no justification to suddenly increase the price because the album is coming to end of its licensing run.
    You did that with Cats Stevens and doing it with Pet Sounds. Now this again.
    Wrong wrong
    Acoustic Sounds is a retailer NOT a flipper. Buy now cry later??? Not at sudden price jumps for no dam reason!!!!

    • @acousticsoundsks
      @acousticsoundsks  Před 2 lety

      There is a reason. When we get down to our last copies, we can sometimes change the price. It's supply and demand. I encourage you and everybody to buy the records that you wanna buy when they first come out. We have been offering the Nat King Cole records since 2010. Also remember, nothing lasts forever.

  • @fuzztonedaddy1
    @fuzztonedaddy1 Před 2 lety

    Thanks for the refund Chad. You got the best records no one can buy.

  • @tuneyouup
    @tuneyouup Před 2 lety +2

    Snake oil money for nothing