{"id":2466778,"date":"2026-06-19T11:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T11:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2466778"},"modified":"2026-06-19T11:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T11:06:29","slug":"why-the-time-is-right-for-a-new-sony-walkman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-the-time-is-right-for-a-new-sony-walkman\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the time is right for a new Sony Walkman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cassettes are going the way of vinyl, with sales up 53 per cent last year<\/a> in the UK, hitting 164,000 units. This is not solely a British phenomenon \u2013 446,500 tapes were sold in the US in the same year<\/a>, an increase of 17.5 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n

Which got me thinking. Could we see the OG portable cassette player, the Walkman, make a comeback? And not as a Walkman-branded phone<\/a> or digital music player, but as a proper, bona fide tape player? As the proud owner of at least two Walkmans during my childhood, I certainly hope so.<\/p>\n

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