Cassettes- not actually a dead format!
The 2018 cassette charts are in, and it turns out that we bloody love a good old fashioned cassette tape.
Formerly binned off as a dead format, cassette tapes had a massive revival in 2018 with the UK Official Charts revealing that sales of the format were up 125.3% year on year for 2018- making sales of tapes the highest that they’ve been in over 10 years.
Partially responsible for the resurgence of the format is Twenty One Pilots‘ ‘Trench’- which placed at number 12 in the year-end chart, but peaked at number two earlier in the year.
Also making an appearance on the 2018 year-end cassette chart is Deaf Havana‘s ‘Rituals’ coming in at number 34, and Don Broco‘s ‘Technology’ which placed at number 37.
Check out the full chart here.
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