It marked the 16th consecutive year of growth in vinyl, with 41 million albums sold — compared to 33 million CDs. Streaming is still the biggest driver of the music industry's growth, making up 84% of ...

Americans seem to be listening to more vinyl records amid the pandemic. In fact, vinyl outsold CDs for the first time since the 1980s, according to a recently released mid-year report from the ...

It’s a debate that’s raged for decades. Which music format is best - CD or vinyl? Vinyl may have had a near death experience, but CD has never gone away - and now the two rivals are squaring up to one ...

If you are making music, which one is better: CD or vinyl? Since the vinyl record format’s recent comeback, there has been an increasing discourse about what physical audio format is better between ...

People love vinyl records for a myriad of reasons. It might be the satisfying hum of the needle as the groove spins beneath it that attracts them, or the enjoyment of handling a physical product and ...

If current trends hold, sales of vinyl records are set to outpace the sales of compact discs this year for the first time since 1986, according to the latest report from the Recording Industry ...

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This trend continues in RIAA’s 2019 mid-year report, which came out on Thursday. Vinyl records earned $224.1 million (on 8.6 million units) in the first half of 2019, closing in on the $247.9 million ...

The new owners of Indy CD and Vinyl know that running a brick-and-mortar music store may not make them rich, but they are confident their Broad Ripple shop is here to stay. A trio of managing partners ...

Vinyl albums outsold CDs last year for the first time since 1987, according to the Recording Industry Association of America's year-end report released Thursday. It marked the 16th consecutive year of ...

Video killed the radio star, but vinyl records may yet outlive CDs. Vinyl albums outsold CDs last year for the first time since 1987, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, an ...