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Worth noting that CD sales as a percent of total revenue fell from 4.0% to 3.9%, continuing the trend relative to the whole there. From: https://www.riaa.com/u

Worth noting that CD sales as a percent of total revenue fell from 4.0% to 3.9%, continuing the trend relative to the whole there. From: https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/ https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/

jandrese 5y ago
It is also worth noting that people spent more on Vinyl than they did on CDs last year. CDs are a fairly small niche now. https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/us-music-fans-spent-more-on-vinyl-than-cd-last-year-for-the-first-time-since-1986/ https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/us-music-fans-spent-m...
- goosedragons 5y ago
  Doesn't that have more to do with Vinyl being basically a collectors format with much higher MSRPs per album than CD? In unit sales CD still sells more.
  - luhn 5y ago
    No, vinyl is the majority of physical sales by unit now in the US. > According to data from the MRC and Billboard, 38.3 per cent of all album sales in the country last year were in vinyl format, while it accounted over 50 per cent of all physical album sales (41.72 million sales out of a total of 82.79 million). https://www.nme.com/news/music/vinyl-albums-outsold-cds-in-us-for-first-time-in-30-years-in-2021-3138423 https://www.nme.com/news/music/vinyl-albums-outsold-cds-in-u... Billboard source (paywalled): https://www.billboard.com/pro/vinyl-sales-new-record-past-cds-2021/ https://www.billboard.com/pro/vinyl-sales-new-record-past-cd...
    - ghaff 5y ago
      I have no interest in going back to vinyl and I don't have most of my old albums any longer. But if you want retro physicality of your music medium, vinyl probably has a lot more appeal than the alternatives. I do buy CDs from time to time if they're as cheap or cheaper than MP3s (or they're something oddball I can't buy digitally). But I generally then just rip them and put the physical CD in a box in the attic.
    - Forgeties79 5y ago
      Holy hell 38.3% of ALL album sales? I get people mostly but individual songs but I would’ve never guessed almost 40%.
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randcraw 5y ago
...while total revenue of all media formats grew from 12.7B to 15.0B. CD revenue rose from 505.9M to 584.2M, but actually lost 0.1% of market share. The big winners of market share among formats were LPs -- up from 5.3% to 6.9%, and on-demand streaming (with ads) -- up from 9.9% to 11.7%. (Revenues and percentages are in US dollars after adjustment for inflation.)

jandrese 5y ago

It is also worth noting that people spent more on Vinyl than they did on CDs last year. CDs are a fairly small niche now. https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/us-music-fans-spent-more-on-vinyl-than-cd-last-year-for-the-first-time-since-1986/ https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/us-music-fans-spent-m...

goosedragons 5y ago
Doesn't that have more to do with Vinyl being basically a collectors format with much higher MSRPs per album than CD? In unit sales CD still sells more.
- luhn 5y ago
  No, vinyl is the majority of physical sales by unit now in the US. > According to data from the MRC and Billboard, 38.3 per cent of all album sales in the country last year were in vinyl format, while it accounted over 50 per cent of all physical album sales (41.72 million sales out of a total of 82.79 million). https://www.nme.com/news/music/vinyl-albums-outsold-cds-in-us-for-first-time-in-30-years-in-2021-3138423 https://www.nme.com/news/music/vinyl-albums-outsold-cds-in-u... Billboard source (paywalled): https://www.billboard.com/pro/vinyl-sales-new-record-past-cds-2021/ https://www.billboard.com/pro/vinyl-sales-new-record-past-cd...
  - ghaff 5y ago
    I have no interest in going back to vinyl and I don't have most of my old albums any longer. But if you want retro physicality of your music medium, vinyl probably has a lot more appeal than the alternatives. I do buy CDs from time to time if they're as cheap or cheaper than MP3s (or they're something oddball I can't buy digitally). But I generally then just rip them and put the physical CD in a box in the attic.
  - Forgeties79 5y ago
    Holy hell 38.3% of ALL album sales? I get people mostly but individual songs but I would’ve never guessed almost 40%.
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randcraw 5y ago

...while total revenue of all media formats grew from 12.7B to 15.0B. CD revenue rose from 505.9M to 584.2M, but actually lost 0.1% of market share. The big winners of market share among formats were LPs -- up from 5.3% to 6.9%, and on-demand streaming (with ads) -- up from 9.9% to 11.7%. (Revenues and percentages are in US dollars after adjustment for inflation.)