The vinyl community, in numbers
A snapshot of the community at the end of October 2026 · See the current Pulse
Snapshot taken · 138,613 records from 1,516 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 1,516 collections say about how people collect. Refreshed daily.
The colour revolution
Coloured vinyl went from a novelty to the norm: 0.8% of 1965-69 pressings on Groovv are coloured, against 53.1% of pressings since 2025. Heavyweight 180g vinyl peaked at 32% of 2010-14 pressings and has since fallen to 10.6% as colour took over.
| Pressed | Coloured | 180g and heavier |
|---|---|---|
| 1965-69 | 0.8% | 0% |
| 1970-74 | 1.1% | 0% |
| 1975-79 | 1.7% | 0.2% |
| 1980-84 | 2.1% | 0% |
| 1985-89 | 2.3% | 0% |
| 1990-94 | 4.2% | 0.2% |
| 1995-99 | 2.1% | 0.8% |
| 2000-04 | 2.9% | 4.5% |
| 2005-09 | 6.3% | 15% |
| 2010-14 | 12.1% | 32% |
| 2015-19 | 21.1% | 30.3% |
| 2020-24 | 44.6% | 17% |
| since 2025 | 53.1% | 10.6% |
Originals or reissues?
Most classics on Groovv are reissues. Only 22% of The Dark Side Of The Moon copies are original pressings, and 60% were pressed in 2008 or later. Brothers In Arms is the exception: 55% are originals.
The records people buy twice
The Dark Side Of The Moon is the album collectors most often own in more than one pressing: 15 of its 175 owners have at least two.
Completist magnets
Elvis Presley collectors are the biggest completists: they own 5.3 of the artist's albums on average, ahead of Prince (4.8) and The Beatles (4).
Starter crates and deep crates
A first crate and a deep one barely overlap. Gold (Greatest Hits) is in 16 of 496 starter collections and none of the 41 biggest, while big crates lean on The Cars, Tres Hombres and Marquee Moon.
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 512 collectors' shelves, from Rumours to Metallica, ahead of Bernie Grundman (401) and Miles Showell (391).
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 11%.
Where it was recorded
Electric Lady Studios is the room behind the most Groovv collections: 389 collectors own a record made there, ahead of Abbey Road Studios (363) and Record Plant, Los Angeles (361).
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.
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