The web seemingly went right into a tailspin yesterday over vinyl gross sales dropping a surprising 33% between 2023 and 2024. The stats have been initially reported by Billboard through the information firm Luminate, and brought on headlines like “Vinyl sales drop 33⅓ as greed threatens to ruin the revival” and “Vinyl Sales Have Plummeted 33% Year Over Year — What’s Going On?” Besides vinyl gross sales did not really drop 33%.
In keeping with an replace from Consequence, Luminate merely chnged the methodology by which they rely vinyl gross sales from unbiased retailers. Luminate additional notes that vinyl gross sales within the U.S. elevated by 6.2% when evaluating 2023 and 2024 by Q3 yr over yr.
So there you go – vinyl continues its unimaginable climb. Whether or not or not these vinyl patrons really personal a turntable is another story (literally), however so long as everybody’s completely satisfied and supporting the artists, that is all that issues.
Sadly, vinyl was the one actual winner when it got here to year-over-year comparisons. CD gross sales dropped a whopping 19.5% from 26.8 million gross sales in 2023 to 21.6 million gross sales in 2024. Digital gross sales additionally dipped 8.3% from 14.4 million gross sales to 13.2 million. Streaming is doing simply positive, because it the medium rose 6.9% between 2023 and 2024. Audio On Demand streams rose from 976.4 billion in 2023 to a tidy 1 trillion in 2024.
Anyway, I am personally backing the “Convey Again CDs” motion. The motion at the moment consists of me typing out that earlier sentence. Take part me in my dated revolution.
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