Useless facts..smile!
How many CDs sold in 2020?
31.6 million CD albums
In
2020, 31.6 million
CD albums were
sold in the United States, accounting for less than 4 percent of music industry revenues.
How many records were sold in 2020?
In
2020, 27.5 million LPs were
sold in the United States, up 46 percent compared to 2019 and more than 30-fold compared to 2006 when the vinyl comeback began. Jan 15, 2021
https://www.statista.com › lp-sales-in-the-united states
How many songs are downloaded each year?
How much music is pirated
each year? The latest piracy statistics show that over 1.2 billion
songs get illegally
downloaded each year.
biggest physical medium in sales? As actual album sales go, Taylor Swift had no competition. “Folklore” was
the only album of 2020 to top a million in full-album sales, finishing the year with
1.28 million copies sold. ( that is not even platinum level).
The news was not so great for digital music sales, as consumers continue to devalue ownership of their music when streaming is so handy. Global song sales were down 19.2% and the decline was even harsher in the U.S., with a decline of 22.3%, from 301 tracks sold to 234 million.
The number of digital music
album downloads in the United States in
2020 amounted to 33.1 million, marking a drop of more than 50 percent from 2016. Over 100 million digital music
albums were downloaded in the U.S. between 2011 and 2015, but the number then began to decrease annually and has failed to recover since.
The fact is streaming is king and by a far shot. It is in the billions, and due to that, even digital purchases of downloads of albums are going the wayside. Folks don't want to own media anymore, even DVD/Blu-Ray/4-K sales are way down and they look better than what you see on cable or streaming TV, folks just don't care, they want it fast and easy. Spotify and others are where people go to get their music. Why own it they say, we grew up as collectors of music, most people don't care anymore to do so. With high-end audio becoming more geared toward the upper 5% of wage earners its death is slow but surely coming, it is a boomer hobby.
Mid-Year-2020-RIAA-Revenue-Statistics.pdf