{"id":805412,"date":"2020-03-18T13:06:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T19:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=969053"},"modified":"2020-03-18T13:06:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T19:06:29","slug":"amazon-is-halting-new-cds-and-vinyl-record-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/amazon-is-halting-new-cds-and-vinyl-record-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Is Halting New CDs and Vinyl Record Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We\u2019re only starting to see the first signs of the likely unprecedented and inevitably devastating impacts of COVID-19<\/a> on the music industry<\/a>. Analysts estimate that the concert industry could lose as much as $5 billion<\/a> as festivals like SXSW and Coachella postpone and acts from Billie Eilish to Celine Dion cancel tours. What we haven\u2019t yet seen is the equally inevitable effects on album sales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Early numbers from Alpha Data, the data analytics provider that powers the Rolling Stone Charts, <\/a>show that physical album sales were down 6 percent week on week from March 6th through 12th, and are likely to keep dropping as more people spend time indoors, out of stores. Another early sign of bad news came Tuesday, when Amazon<\/a> announced it was halting incoming shipments of vinyl and CD.<\/p>\n

Amazon announced in an article on its seller website<\/a> that it was \u201cprioritizing household staples, medical supplies and other high-demand products\u201d that have become widely unavailable as COVID-19 \u2014 and the panic that comes with it \u2014 spread across the country last week. In response, the company has halted shipment creation on products that do not fall in this category, including CD, vinyl and books, effective through April 5th.<\/p>\n

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This only affects new products coming into Amazon\u2019s fulfillment centers, not products already in Amazon\u2019s fulfillment centers. In other words, if you\u2019ve placed an order for an album already available on Amazon, those orders won\u2019t be affected.<\/p>\n

Amazon represents one of the world\u2019s largest record retailers and will likely impact most labels, from the smallest Indies to the majors.<\/p>\n

Will McCarley, director of sales for Fat Possum Records, whose discography includes albums by The Black Keys, Modest Mouse and Soccer Mommy, said about three fifth\u2019s of the label\u2019s business comes from its distribution deal through Sony\u2019s The Orchard. While Amazon is by no means its largest contributor, it makes up a sizable chunk of its direct to consumer sales, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a pretty hard hit for everybody, and we\u2019re just trying to be sensitive to the situation,\u201d McCarley said. \u201cWe\u2019re not filling medical supplies or anything like that, we\u2019re in the music business and we understand this will be a long lasting affect for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

A representative for Amazon had not responded to Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re only starting to see the first signs of the likely unprecedented and inevitably devastating impacts of COVID-19 on the music industry. Analysts estimate that the concert industry could lose as much as $5 billion as festivals like SXSW and Coachella postpone and acts from Billie Eilish to Celine Dion cancel tours. What we haven\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 19:50:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}