According to the data published by the RIAA, CD sales in the United States for 2021 increased for the first time in almost two decades As the shipments rose from 31.6 million in 2020 to 46.6 million in 2021. I just want to know, who are these people?

Although the sales of CDs (Which is retro tech) are very far from their peak in 2000, this is another key element to seeing the fact that there is a growing number of people that enjoy physical music, not via streaming services. Just the way vinyl Sales have also been steadily increasing for nearly a decade Reaching 39.7 million units in the United States in 2021. The combination means that physical media as a whole experienced its first increase in sales since 1996, but streaming remains king. Paid subscriptions made up 57.2 percent of revenue measured by the RIAA in 2021 at $8.6 billion, while ad-supported streams brought in $1.8 billion. Meanwhile, CD and vinyl album sales combined made up less than 11 percent of revenue.

Although CDs are a great way for listening to music at home, there have not been a lot of people out there carrying portable CD players with them for years now. CDs contain digital music very identical to what you get from lossless music services from Apple and Amazon, but sadly not Spotify. The thing is, you won’t get Variety as your favorite small artists out there won’t be interested in investing their time into CDs and physical/ tangible ways of selling their music. Although there are a lot of downsides to CDs, there are still some things that CDs Can achieve better than streaming services. Well, someone who gets a CD has a nice physical/ tangible object with album art and a real sense of ownership. Also, you’re directly paying the artist rather than those little pennies the streaming corporations pay the artist.