Viral Trends Vinyl records have taken over — and growing more popular than streaming By Brooke Kato Published Dec. 3, 2024, 9:23 a.m. ET ...

Vinyl sales are trending up. The RIAA reports that in 2023, 43 million records were sold in the US versus 37 million CDs, the second year this was true. The difference is even more staggering when ...

But until now, record-making has been stuck in the ’80s.] After spending decades as listeners’ go-to physical music medium, vinyl records finally passed the torch over to CDs back in 1987.

Key Background Vinyl sales have been on the rise in recent years and Swift has led the charge, setting plenty of records for vinyl sales. In 2022, her “Midnights” was the year’s best-selling ...

If you love vinyl, Saturday, April 20 is your day, Record Store Day. Apparently, many Americans do. U.S. music lovers spent $1.4 billion on vinyl in 2023, 10% more than the year before.

There were 44 million vinyl records shipped last year, compared with 33 million CDs. And revenues from vinyl records grew 7% to $1.4 billion in 2024 — the 18th consecutive year of growth.