Sales of physical music media, like CDs and vinyls, have surpassed the number of people downloading music from iTunes. Which makes sense because everyone else has moved on to streaming music, which accounted for 75% of revenue last year for the recording industry.
Downloads represented just 11 percent of US labels’ revenue last year, a music industry trade group said Thursday. Physical sales — the term for music formats you can actually hold, which are mostly CDs and vinyl at this point — booked 12 percent.
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I know I am selling a ton of vintage vinyl. All I have to do is tell my customers I have a new batch of vinyl and they come running. I also sell the old shellack 78 RPM records. People just love this stuff!
They do like my saying: Vinyl sounds better because the music is better!