Streaming is the reason. Kissed my CDs good buy and love all the music available to me now. Streaming sound quality is improving by the month with all the new innovation in this space. Listening to all kinds of new artists that would have never been on my radar before. Fun!
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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