Nielsen Vinyl Sales

Overall audio equivalent album units climb 9 audio on demand streams surge 16 and vinyl album sales grow 11.

Nielsen vinyl sales.

Last year vinyl unit sales totaled 9 2 million up from 6 1 million in 2013. For the first time in history the internet mail order venue store group led by internet retailers and. And the steady increase in unit growth is showing no signs of well skipping. Lil baby s my turn and roddy ricch s the box lead nielsen music mrc data.

And album sales between january. Thanks to record store day 2020 s first drop on aug. Vinyl lp sales grew to over 11 of total physical album sales in 2016. This marks 11 years of year over year increases for vinyl lps reaching a record sales level in the nielsen music era since 1991 with over 13 million sales this year.

According to nielsen s 2019 year end music report lps accounted for 17 percent of album sales in the united states which is quite substantial. Vinyl album sales reached 1 243 million the highest number since nielsen began documenting music data in. Further it is the first time vinyl lp sales have surpassed 1 million copies in a single week in the nielsen music era. In fact sales of vinyl are actually increasing at a rapid clip.

Overall vinyl album sales enjoyed 11 2 growth to 9 2 million units up almost 1 million copies from the 8 3 million copies scanned during the first half of 2019 thanks to walmart coming to the. 26 was harry styles. Album equivalent audio music consumption increased 11 4 on demand streams cross 1 trillion mark for first time vinyl album sales hit a nielsen era high again. According to nielsen vinyl album sales in the u s.

Of that figure 18 84 million were vinyl which is up over 14 from the year prior according to data shared by nielsen music in its annual year end report on how the music industry is doing. Have grown a whopping 260 since 2009. Vinyl record sales surpassed cds for the first time in decades. Vinyl sales in the united states.