The days of vinyl records being seen as outdated have mostly.
Total record sales in vinyl cd downloads.
Amid all the talk of music streaming and the renaissance of vinyl the continued plummeting of cd sales hasn t been getting a lot of attention in recent years according to the recording industry.
Vinyl revenue grew by 12 8 in.
Vinyl records accounted for 232 1 million of music sales in the first half of the year compared to cds which brought in only 129 9 million according to a report from the recording industry.
While sales have gone up prices have as well.
Purchases of digital songs albums and even physical cds decline once again as another year comes to a close but vinyl sales grow by double digits and now they make up just over one quarter of.
According to data from ebay a new vinyl record cost an average of 4 80 in 2007 and in 2017 it had gone up to 28 40 an increase of over 490.
The riaa s revenue numbers for the first half of 2020 show that cd sales have plummeted and music downloads now bring in less revenue than all physical products.
Cd shipments however fell 6 to 1 1 billion.
Vinyl record sales have helped.
The riaa found that among the other physical products vinyl revenues jumped 10 to 395 million.
Cds and vinyl are more popular than digital downloads once again.
Digital download sales have fallen so much in the past few years that they re now smaller than sales of cds vinyl and other.