Vinyl Sales Hit $1 Billion In U.S. Revenue Last Year
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Vinyl has had 19 years of consecutive growth in the U.S., selling nearly 47 million copies last year according to the RIAA's year-end report.
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Vinyl ‘s resurgence has reached a new milestone, as vinyl revenue surpassed $1 billion in revenue in the United States in 2025, the RIAA reported in its annual year-end report published on Monday. Overall, vinyl sales grew about 9.3 percent year over year, the RIAA said, with overall units sold rising from 43.4 million to 46.8 million. That’s a sharp contrast to other legacy listening formats like CDs and digital downloads, whose revenues dropped by 7.8 percent and .8 percent, respectively. And while some record store owners and collectors have expressed concern about vinyl getting consistently more expensive — the average price of a mint vinyl record grew 24 percent to $37.22 from 2020 to 2025, per Discogs — so far, the data shows that hasn’t lead to waning demand yet. Related Stories Music Taylor Swift Fans Could Get Vancouver Concert Ticket Refunds From StubHub Music Selena Gomez Confirms Taylor Swift's "Dorothea" Song Is About Her The vinyl boom started in the late 2000s as a more niche trend among audiofiles and indieheads, with alt-rock figures like Jack White serving as early trailblazers evangelizing the format. Today, it’s a mainstream hobby carried by mainstream pop; Taylor Swift in particular has had the top-selling vinyl album in the country for the last four years. Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl was by far the best-selling vinyl album in the country last year, selling 1.6 million copies in 2025 according to Luminate, with Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend in second with 292,000. Kendrick Lamar’s GNX came in third with 279,000, Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet had 262,000 and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft rounded out the top 5 with 192,000. While vinyl’s growth reflects a continued interest from listeners to own tangible, p...
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