Vinyl sales grew for the 16th consecutive year in 2022, with 41 million albums sold — compared to 33 million CDs. Streaming is still the biggest driver of the music industry's growth.

A rare Taylor Swift CD recorded when she was a child has sold for more than $12,000. The autographed six-track disc, featuring an original recording and cover versions of songs by Dolly Parton ...

The German recorded music market generated nearly $1.4 billion during 2025’s first half, representing a modest 1.4% ...

Sales of physical music formats, like vinyl, CDs, and cassette tapes, saw a 4% increase from 2021 to 2022, but last year vinyl made up $1.2 billion of the $1.7 billion in physical media sales ...

A new report found that vinyl record sales continued their more than decade-long growth in 2022, and for the first time in more than three decades, outsold CDs in the number of units.

Total CD album sales of $4.3 billion in 1991, made up 55.4% of the total recorded music revenue that year, according to the RIAA. In 1999, consumers spent $13 billion on CDs – 88% of the $14.6 ...

In the first half of 2023, sales of physical products, primarily CDs and vinyl records, totaled $882 million, just over 10% of the all-time high $8.4 billion total for recorded music sales.

Now hear this: Sales of recorded music in the U.S. grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2023, with streams accounting for a dominant 84% and vinyl up by double digits again, the RIAA said in ...

According to the auction house, the CD was recorded by Swift at age 11 during her years living in Reading, Pennsylvania, and shopped around during a trip to Nashville with her mom, Andrea.