Vinyl Vs Cd Sales 2017

Further vinyl album sales were driven by an array of titles not just a handful of hot sellers.

Vinyl vs cd sales 2017.

Or as riaa call it vinyl continues to be a bright spot among physical formats. The riaa found that among the other physical products vinyl revenues jumped 10 to 395 million. Yes it s 2018 and youtube spotify and pandora are pretty great but hear me out. What music industry experts predict for streaming and vinyl in 2017 record player vinyl jpg.

Yet unit volume of cd sales remains much higher than. Cd shipments however fell 6 to 1 1 billion. Used vinyl sales vs. Vinyl record sales surpassed cds for the first time in decades.

Last year nearly two thirds of all revenue over 5 7. You can read riaa s full 2017 report here. Vinyl record sales have helped. In 2019 18 8 million lps were sold in the.

However break down the physical sales and you get a more complete picture which sees cd sales drop 6 and vinyl sales climb 10 representing 395 million in sales. 15 2018 8 47 a m. In 2016 the music industry made more than half of its revenue from streaming for the first time and that growth continued into 2017. In total 77 different titles each sold more than 20 000 copies on vinyl lp in 2017 as compared to.

Continuing one of the more surprising comebacks of the digital age vinyl album sales in the united states have grown for the 14th consecutive year. Sales of cd and vinyl for divide made up 62 per cent of total sales. Ldprod istock via getty images. Looking at sales by genre category r b hip hop as expected suffered the biggest declines in the cd format falling from 6 33 million units in the first half of 2017 to 3 84 million units in the.

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