{"id":145250,"date":"2020-09-14T11:10:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T09:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/?p=145250"},"modified":"2020-09-14T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T09:10:30","slug":"vinyl-sales-exceed-cd-sales-for-the-first-time-since-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/en\/vinyl-sales-exceed-cd-sales-for-the-first-time-since-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinyl sales exceed CD sales for the first time since 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For the first time since 1986, vinyls sell more than CDs in the United States, the model country in the consumption of culture and entertainment. In Spain, vinyl records also continue to conquer and now represent 40% of music sales in physical format.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-145245\" src=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/highxtar-ventas-vinilos-supera-cds-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/highxtar-ventas-vinilos-supera-cds-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/highxtar-ventas-vinilos-supera-cds-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/highxtar-ventas-vinilos-supera-cds-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/highxtar-ventas-vinilos-supera-cds-1-973x649.jpg 973w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/highxtar-ventas-vinilos-supera-cds-1-508x339.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the RIAA report, <strong>profits from the sale of vinyl were 195 million euros<\/strong> during the first six months of 2020, while CDs only accounted for 109 million euros.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, <strong>physical sales dropped 23%<\/strong> due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, CD sales fell by 48% while <strong>vinyl sales increased significantly<\/strong>. Digital sales also fell by 22% to ?295 million.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, <strong>streaming still accounts for the majority of total revenue<\/strong> at 85% and subscriptions to a paid service &#8211; such as Spotify or Apple Music &#8211; increased by 24%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Spain, vinyl records also continue to conquer more public and now represent 40% of music sales in physical format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":145248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[1682],"class_list":["post-145250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-en","tag-natalia-canoa-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin  - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vinyl sales exceed CD sales for the first time since 1986 - 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