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Adele's 25 sold 22,000 vinyl copies in its first week. Yes, that's a fraction of the total sales of 3.8 million copies sold but it's still impressive in our niche world (photo taken during video shoot for "It's a Vinyl World After All" DVD).

In 2014 RTI pressed 2.8 million records. This year MacInnis expects to press 3.5 million. We'll have the actual total as part of our annual pressing plant survey.

Next year RTI expects to press in excess of 4 million records. What accounts for the increased capacity? MacInnis told me that in late October of 2014 he made the decision to do "whatever is necessary" to begin running two full shift operation, or 16-18 hours of press operation per day.

Once that began and was successful, he upped production this past September to 24 hour a day operation for 5.5 days a week, which will bring the total up to a projected 3.5 million records pressed in 2015 and more than 4+ million in 2016—that is unless this ridiculous hipster fad finally collapses under the weight of its own Luddite stupidity. Ha Ha Ha Ha.....