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Vinyl record sales surpass CDs for first time since ’80s

Streaming music still No. 1

New sales figures show CDs are out of style.

The new craze is vinyl.

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Sales of the retro records outpaced those of CDs in the first half of this year.

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That hasn’t happened since the 1980s.

Sales for the old-school format brought in about $230 million almost double that of CDs.

But streaming music is still the new norm.

Consumers dropped about $4.8 billion on that in the first six months of 2020.


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