{"id":86196,"date":"2026-02-03T14:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/the-rise-and-fall-of-american-vinyl-manufacturers-big-business-business-insider\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:44:16","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-american-vinyl-manufacturers-big-business-business-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/the-rise-and-fall-of-american-vinyl-manufacturers-big-business-business-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise And Fall Of American Vinyl Manufacturers | Big Business | Business Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vinyl has made a record-breaking comeback, outselling CDs and mp3 downloads, and is now the music industry\u2019s highest-grossing physical format. <!--more--> We visited the world\u2019s biggest vinyl factory, GZ Media, to find out how it became the largest manufacturer in the industry, as well as a smaller pressing plant in New Jersey to see how US factories are staying afloat despite cutthroat competition.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 &#8211; Intro<br \/>\n01:01 &#8211; The Birth of Vinyl<br \/>\n02:11 &#8211; Vinyl\u2019s Golden Age<br \/>\n02:56 &#8211; The Founding of GZ Media<br \/>\n03:37 &#8211; How Records Are Made<br \/>\n05:19 &#8211; Vinyl&#8217;s Fall<br \/>\n07:37 &#8211; Amoeba Music<br \/>\n08:26 &#8211; How to Examine a Record<br \/>\n09:44 &#8211; How the Vinyl Comeback Was Planned<br \/>\n11:31 &#8211; Independent Record Pressing<br \/>\n12:57 &#8211; COVID-19 Vinyl Bubble Burst<br \/>\n12:33 &#8211; How GZ Dominated the Industry<br \/>\n16:20 &#8211; Independent Plants Press On<br \/>\n16:29 &#8211; Vinyl Records Revenue<br \/>\n16:39 &#8211; Credits<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n#vinyl #vinylrecords #recordstores #amoeba #bigbusiness <\/p>\n<p>MORE BIG BUSINESS VIDEOS:<br \/>\nThe Real Brands Behind Trader Joe\u2019s Food<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zOd01sLlDj4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/zOd01sLlDj4<\/a><br \/>\nHow The World\u2019s Biggest Truck Stop Makes 350,000 Meals A Year<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/h5CM_5VA2PI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/h5CM_5VA2PI<\/a><br \/>\nThe Rise And Fall Of Hooters<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wuTTamqrHWE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/wuTTamqrHWE<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Business Insider tells you all you need to know about business, finance, tech, retail, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Visit our homepage for the top stories of the day: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com<\/a><br \/>\nBusiness Insider on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/businessinsider\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/businessinsider<\/a><br \/>\nBusiness Insider on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/businessinsider\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/businessinsider<\/a><br \/>\nBusiness Insider on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/businessinsider\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/businessinsider<\/a><br \/>\nBusiness Insider on Snapchat: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snapchat.com\/discover\/Business_Insider\/5319643143\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.snapchat.com\/discover\/Business_Insider\/5319643143<\/a><br \/>\nBusiness Insider on TikTok: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/<\/a>@businessinsider<\/p>\n<p>Inside The World\u2019s Biggest Vinyl Factory Making 70 Million Records a Year | Big Business | Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vinyl has made a record-breaking comeback, outselling CDs and mp3 downloads, and is now the music industry\u2019s highest-grossing physical format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}