According to Billboard, along with the revival of vinyl in recent years, it seems that in 2021 CD also benefited and rose in the US.
Specifically, although the CD is no longer the dominant in sales of natural product in 2021 gave some hope as for the first time after 17 years there was an increase, even if it was only 1.1%. The 40.59 million CDs sold last year surpassed last year’s 40.16. This was the first time since 2004 that CD sales have increased in the United States. Since then, of course, the difference is chaotic, since we are talking about 665 million pieces.
On the other hand, the increase in vinyl sales was impressive once again, reaching 51.4% to 41.72 million for 2021, compared to 27.55 in 2020! In fact, this is the first time since 1991 that sales of vinyl have surpassed those of CDs!
Overall, total CD album sales in the United States reached 108.98 million. The corresponding number for 2020 was 102.48, which is an increase of 6.3%. The percentage may seem small and not impressive, but this was the first time that there was an increase in music sales in 10 years.
