The vinyl community, in numbers
What collectors on Groovv are cataloguing and spinning · October 2026
Updated · 108,316 records from 1,205 collections · How we measure
New vinyl
The new releases collectors are adding right now: albums first released in 2025 and 2026, ranked by how many collectors added them in the last 60 days.
On the rise
Older records finding new owners. Ranked by how many established collectors added them in the last 60 days compared with how widely they're already owned, so the usual classics don't win on size alone.
Rarest pressings added this month
The scarcest new arrivals in Groovv crates, ranked by how few copies of that exact pressing are registered on Discogs.
The collection, decoded
What 1,205 collections say about how people collect. Refreshed daily.
The colour revolution
Coloured vinyl went from a novelty to the norm: 0.7% of 1965-69 pressings on Groovv are coloured, against 54.3% of pressings since 2025. Heavyweight 180g vinyl peaked at 31.6% of 2010-14 pressings and has since fallen to 9.6% as colour took over.
| Pressed | Coloured | 180g and heavier |
|---|---|---|
| 1965-69 | 0.7% | 0% |
| 1970-74 | 1.1% | 0% |
| 1975-79 | 1.6% | 0.1% |
| 1980-84 | 2% | 0% |
| 1985-89 | 2.2% | 0% |
| 1990-94 | 4.4% | 0.3% |
| 1995-99 | 2% | 0.8% |
| 2000-04 | 2.8% | 4.4% |
| 2005-09 | 5.9% | 15.3% |
| 2010-14 | 12.3% | 31.6% |
| 2015-19 | 21.3% | 29.5% |
| 2020-24 | 44.2% | 16% |
| since 2025 | 54.3% | 9.6% |
Originals or reissues?
Most classics on Groovv are reissues. Only 8% of Kind Of Blue copies are original pressings, and 87% were pressed in 2008 or later. Brothers In Arms is the exception: 55% are originals.
The records people buy twice
Led Zeppelin IV is the album collectors most often own in more than one pressing: 11 of its 93 owners have at least two.
Completist magnets
Elvis Presley collectors are the biggest completists: they own 6.2 of the artist's albums on average, ahead of The Beatles (4.3) and Taylor Swift (4.3).
Starter crates and deep crates
A first crate and a deep one barely overlap. Short N' Sweet is in 24 of 397 starter collections and none of the 31 biggest, while big crates lean on In Through The Out Door, Presence and Get The Knack.
The people behind the wax
The engineers, pressing plants and studios behind the records in Groovv collections, from the credits on each pressing. Refreshed daily.
Who cut your records
Every record starts as a lacquer cut by a mastering engineer. Chris Bellman cut the lacquers for records on 398 collectors' shelves, from Rumours to Metallica, ahead of Bernie Grundman (317) and Miles Showell (316).
Who pressed each decade
Two plants press most of today's vinyl: GZ Media (28%) and Optimal Media (27%) pressed 55% of the 2020s copies on Groovv whose plant is known. In the 1960s, Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman led with 10%.
Where it was recorded
Electric Lady Studios is the room behind the most Groovv collections: 307 collectors own a record made there, ahead of Abbey Road Studios (298) and Record Plant, Los Angeles (291).
Most collected albums
The all-time staples of the community, ranked by how many collectors own a copy across every Groovv collection.
Featured collectors
Public collections from members who opted in to be featured. Tap through to flip their crates.
Archive
Month-by-month snapshots of the community, frozen as each month closes.
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