The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD

Inspite of millions of music selections on streaming. I have some cd collections that are not on streaming. 

Also worth noting FWIW  that just because something is available on streaming today, it may not be at some point in the future if say there is no significant demand or perhaps even if legal issues were to arise that prevented access.  

As previously stated, at this juncture, I like streaming my music exclusively, and I enjoy it immensely. But, to be perfectly honest with you, I wish that CD, reel to reel,  cassettes, turn tables, and even 8 track, would all make huge come backs. Especially amongst our younger music lovers. The young--those who are the future of the high end audio industry. The young--those who stream their music pretty much exclusively.  I'll take anything that'll revival and restore our extremely diminished and dying high end audio industry back to it's former glory.  

From Wikipedia 

The revival peaked in the 2020s decade, with various publications and record stores crediting Taylor Swift with driving vinyl sales.^{[12][13][14][15]} In 2022, Swift's Midnightsbecame the first major album release to have its vinyl sales outpace CDs since 1987,^[16][17]with approximately 600,000 sold in the US and 80,000 sold in the UK at the time of the record occurring.^[18] In 2023, Swift's re-recorded 1989 (Taylor's Version) became the first album to sell over a million vinyl LPs within a single calendar year in the US.^[19] In 2024, Swift's The Tortured Poets Department broke the record for the single-largest sales week for a vinyl album in the modern era, with 859,000 sales in its first week.^[20] For 2022 the Recording Industry Association of America reported that: "Revenues from vinyl records grew 17% to $1.2 billion – the sixteenth consecutive year of growth – and accounted for 71% of physical format revenues. For the first time since 1987, vinyl albums outsold CDs in units (41 million vs 33 million)."^[21

CDs and Record album sales will never go back to what it once was. Streaming will grow in popularity, but CD and vinyls will continue to be a niche hobby for many people.