{"id":6584,"date":"2026-09-05T16:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=6584"},"modified":"2026-09-05T16:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:54:11","slug":"cd-sales-are-booming-as-physical-media-continues-its-resurgence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=6584","title":{"rendered":"CD sales are booming as physical media continues its resurgence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riaa.com\/news\/riaa-reports-6-billion-in-mid-year-recorded-music-revenue-with-growth-across-every-major-category\/\">CD sales exploded<\/a> in the first half of 2026. A new report from the organization says 17.5 million CDs were sold in the first six months of the year, up from just 12 million during the same period in 2025. That\u2019s a jump of 45.7 percent, and 58.6 percent in dollars, which reached $171.1 million. What makes this all the more shocking is that CD sales <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riaa.com\/reports\/2025-mid-year-music-industry-revenue-report-riaa\/\">actually shrank<\/a> 22 percent from 2024 to 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The RIAA isn\u2019t the only one to notice the boom in CD sales. In July, research firm Luminate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/966726\/cd-sales-vinyl-physical-media-luminate\">released a report<\/a> saying that 16.3 million units were sold in the first half of 2026. It suggested that much of that increase was due to special editions from K-Pop acts like BTS and that Gen Z and millennials were treating them mostly as collectibles, saying that only about half of buyers actually owned a CD player.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Vinyl continued its resurgence as well, with the number of units sold climbing by nearly 21 percent from last year to 26.5 million. \u201cOther physical\u201d media, which includes CD singles, DVDs, cassettes, SACD, DVD-Audio\u2026 basically anything besides \u201cstandard vinyl and CD albums,\u201d also surged by over 73 percent, to 1.6 million units.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Despite the increased interest in physical media and the ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/sherwood.news\/culture\/gen-z-thinks-ipods-are-cool-again\/\">iPod revival<\/a>, people are not leaving streaming in droves. Streaming revenue grew by 4.7 percent to $4.9 billion \u2014 dwarfing all physical media combined.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/990794\/cd-sales-are-booming-as-physical-media-continues-its-resurgence\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), CD sales exploded in the first half of 2026. A new report from the organization says 17.5 million CDs were sold in the first six months of the year, up from just 12 million during the same period in 2025. 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