Cassette tapes make comeback

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Just push rewind: Cassette tapes are making a bit of a comeback.

As of mid-August, music-related cassette album sales are up 46 percent from last year at 22,000 units sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Last year, cassette album sales were at about 15,000.

“Considering not a massive amount of new releases are being pumped out there, that’s substantial,” said Chris Muratore, vice president for merchant services and emerging growth for Nielsen Entertainment. But, he added, the numbers are still, in the big picture, “minuscule.”