CDs represent the most astonishing change since last year. In 1999, at the music industry’s all-time revenue peak, CDs garnered $13 billion in sales, or almost 90% of music industry revenue.

Our 2020 music gift guide features exciting new offerings from Prince, Elton John, ... Weighing in at 24 CDs, “Distortion 1989-2019” dwarves all the other pop/rock box sets of 2020, ...

American music listeners bought more vinyl records than CDs during the ... Apple Music and Amazon, grew 12% to $4.8 billion in the first half of 2020. The average number of paid music ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link US music-lovers are spending more money on vinyl records than CDs for the first time since the 1980s, new data shows. LP and EP sales totalled ...

The CD format, meanwhile, was probably hurt the most by the economic downturn, scanning just 40.1 million copies in 2020 — a 26% decline, from the 54.2 million copies sold in 2019.

In the first half of 2020, vinyl outsold CDs for the first time since the 1980s. ... other physical ways to hold onto your music. But CDs being the tail end of this particular era gives them a ...

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 ...

“CD Baby’s mission is to help artists monetize and promote their music in the best ways possible,” a ... we’ve made the decision to retire the CD Baby retail store on March 31st, 2020.

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It’s the best-selling orchestral album of 2020, with more than 150 million streams, and there’s a companion Blu-Ray of the live concert. King of Kings (Tadlow).

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 ...