What’s wrong with this: By 1930, the sale of records album had reached $26 million a year.?

Question

What’s wrong with this: By 1930, the sale of records album had reached $26 million a year.?

Answer 1

ther were no ALBUMS in 1930 only 78 records

Answer 2

By 1930 the sale of record albums had reached $26 million a year.

The s on records should have been on album.

Answer 3

There's not much wrong with it, other than the "s" that's in the wrong place ("record" is an adjective here, so it should be "record albums"), but I would have phrased it as "By 1930, record album sales had reached $26 million a year", since there were many sales, not one giant sale. But that would be seen as pedantic by some.

Answer 4

Record albums were invented in the 50's.

Answer 5

Nothing. Records existed before 1930 as 78rpm gramophone records. I would think that the USA would have had quite a big entertainment industry by 1930.

Answer 6

Prior to 1948 the records (the 10-inch 78 rpm) were not called albums.

Also the term is record album or record albums not records album.

33s / "LPs": (c. 1948 - 1990)

The 33, a.k.a. the "LP" (Long Playing record) or "album", pictured above at left, was invented in 1948. These LPs were popular until around 1990 when CDs were popular enough to take over. An LP could hold up to a total of 60 minutes of music, but most didn't have more than 40 minutes. They are made of vinyl plastic rather than shellac, so they are more flexible and don't tend to break like 78s. The grooves are 4 times smaller, so they were originally called "Microgrooves" (MG), and early LPs have this written on the label.