
Fact Check: Miles Davis Miles Davis is one of the most influential musicians in jazz history. What you want is Davis' hard-bop classic on Columbia Records' so-called " 6-eye label," which sells for about $1,000 on eBay.Ĭool, baby, cool. Nothing will knock out your jazz-cat friends like casually tossing an original 1959 pressing of this platter on the turntable. While it's not this list's priciest record, "Kind of Blue" will always be on the short list of very desirable collector's items. Value: $1,000 Bottom Line: Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue" Miles Davis performing "So What." Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue" (Tie) Music doesn't get better than "Kind of Blue." Shellac: A record made from a brittle wax between the 1890s and 1950s, often for a disc that plays at 78 rpm. Vinyl: A synthetic plastic polymer, usually the color black, used to make a phonograph record.Īcetate: A metal, lacquer-coated disc that's produced on specialized equipment, often on the fly, for a demonstration recording of a master tape. RPM: Stands for "revolutions per minute." This is the speed at which a phonograph turntable revolves a record.

Before We Drop the Needle on This Licorice Pizza Vinyl fans Sarah McCarthy and Jack Carroll pose at KA-CHUNK!! Records in Annapolis, Maryland, with some colorful discs in 2011. They are worth over a combined $2 million and would make the crew from "High Fidelity" drool. And so, we've compiled a list of the 35 most valuable vinyl records. However, collectors know the real vinyl money lies in original pressings and rare vinyl records. While that's a fraction of the world's estimated $16 billion recording-industry revenue (most from cheap digital downloads and streams), some fans are still willing to pop a bit extra for a physical, quality copy of their favorite music that won't vanish when their iPhone melts down.Ī healthy chunk of those sales comes from reissues of classic albums by everyone from The Doors to Dylan. That's up 51.4 percent from 27.55 million in 2020 and the 16th consecutive year vinyl album sales grew. Vinyl record culture has come back from near extinction to 41.72-million vinyl record sales in 2021. Named the world's "most durable DJ" by the Guinness Book of World Records, Cordeiro hung up his headphones for good in 2021, at age 96, after seven decades of entertaining listeners with oldies and classics from the 1960s and 1970s, like the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Frank Sinatra, and Tony Bennett.


Most Valuable Vinyl Records Worth Money Veteran DJ Ray Cordeiro with a vinyl record at his home in Hong Kong. These rare vinyl records are worth millions of dollars.
