U2, Arcade Fire, The Killers record label no longer releasing CD or Vinyl singles

Tue, 29 Mar 2011

Mercury Records have announced they will no longer be releasing CD or Vinyl singles for their artists, except on rare occasions.

The label who is home to artists such as The Killers, U2 and Arcade Fire will stop releasing collectors vinyl singles after sales dropped to 152,000 last year from more than a million in 2006 reports MusicWeek.com.

A spokesman for the label explained, "For the past couple of years we have released physical singles only when there is demand and with physical formats now accounting for just over 1% of the overall singles market we are being more cautious.

“That said, physical singles are not disappearing and we will still release them when there is a demand - for example The Wanted’s single for Comic Relief is available on CD and we have a 7-inch vinyl single coming for White Lies."It's a move that was hardly unexpected as over the past five years physical single sale's have dwindled to the point where it is no longer  beneficial for the record company's to release CD singles.

For a full list of Mercury Records artists visit www.mercuryrecords.com