Wii Sports: Has Vinyl Gone Too Far?

Nintendo has entered the vinyl game, with a white Wii Sports record making the rounds on social media. Zegalba, aka Image Therapy on Tumblr, has shared the above image, with the vinyl also appearing on Discogs.

Under the name Kazumi Totaka, the Wii Sports vinyl isn’t on any record label and has arrived as an unofficial release. Check out the full tracklist below.

Wii Sports is the latest bizarre album to come to vinyl, with Fall Out Boy infusing band members’ real tears into vinyl and Melbourne's Private Function filling records with their own urine. Alice Cooper also announced the reissue of his 1972 record, School’s Out, which will arrive wrapped in non-flammable panties. 

Meanwhile, a recent report shared by music sales company Luminate found that just “50% of consumers who have bought vinyl in the past 12 months own a record player, compared to 15% among music listeners overall.” As the results make clear, 50% of people buying vinyl actually don’t own the record player to listen to the music they’re buying.

Earlier this year, vinyl outsold CDs for the first time in 35 years, The Music reported. NME noted that “Vinyl album sales grew 11% to £150.5 million,” as CD album sales “fell 17.4% to £124 million”. The last time vinyl outsold CDs was in 1987.

In 2021, ARIA revealed that vinyl sales surpassed CDs in Australia.

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Wii Sports Vinyl – Tracklist