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. Lil baby s my turn and roddy ricch s the box lead nielsen music mrc data. Vinyl sales in the united states. 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. For the first time in history the internet mail order venue store group led by internet retailers and.

Vinyl album sales reached 1 243 million the highest number since nielsen began documenting music data in. The biggest selling vinyl album in the week ending dec. And album sales between january. 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. Thanks to record store day 2020 s first drop on aug. Vinyl record sales surpassed cds for the first time in decades. And the steady increase in unit growth is showing no signs of well skipping.

Further it is the first time vinyl lp sales have surpassed 1 million copies in a single week in the nielsen music era. 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 surged to a new weekly high in 2020 as 802 000 copies were sold in the week ending sept.

In fact sales of vinyl are actually increasing at a rapid clip. Vinyl lp sales grew to over 11 of total physical album sales in 2016. According to nielsen vinyl album sales in the u s. Last year vinyl unit sales totaled 9 2 million up from 6 1 million in 2013.