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The Touch and Sound of Vinyl

Music, talking and laughter filled the air. Although the holidays are behind you, the memories that were shared during this time with family and friends may still be in the back of your mind. You may have even played an old-time holiday song on your record player. You probably selected the right song on the vinyl album for the right moment. And the sound … it doesn’t compare to digital, does it?

Taylor Swift was the year’s top-selling act on vinyl for a third straight year, with 3.484 million copies sold across her catalog of albums, according to data tracking firm Luminate. The industry’s total vinyl album sales for 2023, across all artists in the United States, finished at 49.61 million – up 14.2% from 43.46 million in 2022. 20The year 2023 marked the 18th consecutive year vinyl album sales grew in the United States and the largest year for vinyl album sales since Luminate began tracking data in 1991.

For the third consecutive year, and the third year since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991, vinyl albums outsold CD albums in the United States. Vinyl once again is the leading configuration for album purchases for the third year in a row.

Vinyl album sales comprised 47.1% of all album sales in the United States in 2023 (49.61 million of 105.32 million). Vinyl LPs accounted for 57% of all physical albums sold last year (49.61 million of 87 million). Both sums are Luminate-era records for vinyl’s share of the album sales market in the United States.

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Source: https://www.billboard.com/pro/taylor-swift-vinyl-albums-sold-2023-total/

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