Turn the clock back approximately 10 months to the start of 2017, and you’ll find two comeback stories dominating the music press headlines: the return of Ed Sheeran and the resurgence of vinyl.

And as the new year arrived, so too did some jaw-dropping BPI data on just how explosive the vinyl boom had been over the previous 12 months.

Throughout the course of 2016, sales of the format exceeded the 3 million mark, reaching a total of 3.2m - ...