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According to the RIAA, It doesn't look good for physical media

The RIAA mid-year 2020 report is out and physical media, CDs or LPs, are not doing well. CDs still ship more units (10.6 million to 8.8 million), but LPs have surpassed them in $ amount shipped (CD - $130 million to LP - $232 million) for the first time since the 80s.

CD units shipped fell 45% from the mid-year 2019 report. LP units shipped gained 2.3%. Downloads also fell. Total Streaming revenues were up 12%. Total revenues for all categories were up 5.6%.

https://www.riaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Mid-Year-2020-RIAA-Revenue-Statistics.pdf

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geof3
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Everyone download I’ve received has either been .wav or .flac never MP3. No doubt you have to be discerning with new vinyl.... the majority of mine have been excellent overall. 
geof3
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One thing with new vinyl is usually there is also a hi-rez digital download included. Pretty much all I “buy” these days is vinyl. Old and new. I use my NAS, Spotify, Pandora, and Amazon Music for various other reasons. I rarely listen to anything streaming “critically”. Normally, any of the above are played when doing things around the house, in the car, or at the office. Vinyl is pretty much my “thing” these days.Occasionally, I play a CD, but since most of them are on my NAS as hi-rez files, I usually just play that instead.
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