This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. The RIAA have released their 2020 mid-year report. One interesting tidbit: Vinyl album revenues of $232 million were 62% of total physical revenues, marking the first time vinyl exceeded CDs for such a period since the 1980’s, though it still only accounted for 4% of total music recorded music revenues. more Not all embedded content is displayed here. You can view the original to see embedded videos, tweets, etc.
This doesn't surprise me at all. I used to buy CD's...I just don't care anymore aside from just wanting to support the artist (then I typically just buy merch). If I want that high quality album, I'll just buy it digital lossless. Otherwise, streaming quality has gotten good enough that I don't really care that much. I'm past my audiophile days. Records are cool for displaying and collecting, and people will argue till they're blue in the face that analog > digital, so I can understand that.