Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a> confirmed off her new vinyl<\/a> data earlier this week and shared a few of her favorite artists.<\/p>\n The politician had been buying in Home Rule Records in Washington, D.C. when she stopped to share some ideas about her purchases with photographers.<\/p>\n \u201cDo you know music?\u201d she joked in a video posted to her Instagram<\/a> this week (May 9).<\/p>\n She then pulled out a Charlie Mingus file, who she mentioned was \u201creally one of the greatest jazz performers ever\u201d.<\/p>\n Also within the haul was Roy Ayers<\/a>\u2019 \u2018Everybody Loves the Sunshine\u2019, which Harris described as one among her \u201cfavourite albums of all time\u201d and a \u201cclassic\u201d.<\/p>\n Finally, she confirmed off Louis Armstrong<\/a> and Ella Fitzgerald<\/a>\u2019s \u201cbeautiful\u201d collaborative 1959 album, \u2018Porgy and Bess\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cI had the pleasure of stopping by @hrrecords in DC to celebrate Small Business Week,\u201d the Vice President captioned her submit.<\/p>\n \u201cMingus, Ayers, Fitzgerald and Armstrong\u2014if you don\u2019t know, now you know!\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier this 12 months it was revealed that vinyl had outsold CD for first time in 35 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to figures launched by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA)<\/a>, vinyl album gross sales grew to \u00a3150.5million in 2022, as CD album gross sales fell to \u00a3124million<\/a>.<\/p>\n December additionally marked vinyl\u2019s largest week in gross sales within the US since 1991<\/a>.<\/p>\n This April, in the meantime, the UK have fun Record Store Day 2023, which noticed vinyl followers descend on UK file retailers.<\/p>\n The 1975<\/a>,\u00a0Blur<\/a>,\u00a0Pixies<\/a>,\u00a0U2<\/a>,\u00a0London Grammar<\/a>,\u00a0Madonna<\/a>,\u00a0Ol\u2019 Dirty Bastard<\/a>,\u00a0Foals<\/a>,\u00a0Donna Summer<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Bj\u00f6rk<\/a>\u00a0all launched vinyl as a part of the 2023 occasion.<\/p>\n Taylor Swift<\/a>, who was final 12 months\u00a0introduced because the first-ever world ambassador of Record Store Day<\/a>, additionally launched \u2018folklore<\/a>: the long pond studio sessions\u2019 on vinyl for the primary time.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, again in March, Harris celebrated Women\u2019s History Month alongside Megan Thee Stallion<\/a>.<\/p>\n Meeting in Washington D.C., Megan shared a photograph of the duo posing for a selfie in her Instagram carousel, displaying the rapper sticking her tongue out while the Vice President smiled into the digicam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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