Part of this year’s success could be the release of “30,” Adele’s first album in six years. To now make up just about half of total sales is significant. The rise in vinyl sales is also a significant jump from just one year ago, in 2020, when vinyls made up 27.5 million of physical music sales, about 40% of all total sales. He attributes that rise both to the inclusion of record players in movies and television, but also to the joy people get from digging for a certain vinyl in a record store, one that may “bring back wonderful memories,” he said.
“In recent years, I notice customers preferring to physically own music, other than streaming, usually in its best form (vinyl),” said Tobago Benito, owner of record store DBS Sounds, in MRC’s data roundup.
In just 10 years, that number rose to 50.4% – meaning that vinyls have now surpassed CDs as the most sold physical format for the first time since 1991, MRC reported. In 2011, vinyl only made up 1.7% of physical sales of music, with CDs making up the rest.
Vinyl’s resurgence in culture has been nothing short of a skyrocket. Streaming has been dominating the music industry for years now, but 2021 saw a notable rise in sales of physical albums, thanks in part to the success of Adele’s latest album.īoth CDs and vinyl experienced high sales in 2021, according to an annual year-end music data report from MRC Data, released this week.
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