I love both formats but CD/SACD so damn easy to use. I play LPs once or twice a year. Have quite a few premium vinyl platters that show impressive prices on ebay. Hope this continues until I can sell and recoup some of my investment.
whathifi - viinyl revenue overtakes cds for the first time since 1986
Vinyl revenue overtakes CDs for the first time since 1986 | What Hi-Fi?
I'm sure streaming is responsible for the bottom dropping out of the CD market
i.e. as opposed to a surge in vinyl sales
Having said that our local album store has very good selections of pressings from new artists
I'm good with that :-)
Regards
I'm sure streaming is responsible for the bottom dropping out of the CD market
i.e. as opposed to a surge in vinyl sales
Having said that our local album store has very good selections of pressings from new artists
I'm good with that :-)
Regards
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I'm wondering whether these "CD stats" include online purchases that are downloaded to a computer If I understand you correctly, music downloaded to a computer is considered a download. Here is what the report says about them: --------------- Digital Downloads Revenues from digitally downloaded music were down 18% to $674 million in 2020. Permanent downloads of albums fell 13% by value to $320 million, and individual track sales were down 23% to $313 million in 2020. Downloads accounted for only 6% of total recorded music revenues in 2020. --------------- While download revenues are falling, they still managed to beat vinyl again this year. |
That article is misleading. Vinyl sales surpassed that of CDs but when looking at units sold, vinyl sales were only 2/3 of CDs sales (22.9m to 31.6m). https://darko.audio/2021/03/us-music-fans-bought-more-cds-downloads-than-vinyl-in-2020/ All the best, Nonoise |
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