vinyl sales have for the first time ever outpaced CD. That’s the real story.
So wrong...the real story is that almost everyone streams their music these days. Record sales have outpaced CD sales for the last couple of years but that’s not the REAL story at all. People just aren’t buying physical music except niche groups who are into vinyl.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/streaming-platform-like-spotify-youtube-contributed-to-80percent-of-all-music-sales-in-2019/ar-BB10oM22
From this Feb 2020 article link above
Physical Sales Near DisappearanceThe subscription-based streaming services and free streamers that rely on advertisements for revenue together contributed for about 79% of all music sales, the RIAA said in a report Wednesday.
Physical sales made up for 59% of all revenue in the music industry just a decade ago, the RIAA noted, while streaming services contributed 5%. In 2019, physical sales dropped to just 10%.