CDs Making Comeback? Compact Discs Sales in 2026 Jump 45.7% Driven by Gen Z and Millennial Buyers | 📲 LatestLY
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CDs Making Comeback? Compact Discs Sales in 2026 Jump 45.7% Driven by Gen Z and Millennial Buyers | 📲 LatestLY
Compact discs are making a strong comeback, particularly among Gen Z and millennials seeking tangible music collections and offline listening. CD sales rose 45.7% to 17.5 million units in the first half of the year, generating USD 171.1 million, even as streaming remains the dominant source of music industry revenue. 📲 CDs Making Comeback? Compact Discs Sales in 2026 Jump 45.7% Driven by Gen Z and Millennial Buyers.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) released a report that witnessed an unexpected return in demand for CDs in the first half of 2026.
Why CDs Are Coming Back: the Format that Looked Dead Comes Back in the Middle of It Was From Spotify
There was a time when it seemed that the CDs were doomed to become archaeological objects. Plastic boxes were accumulating on shelves while Spotify, YouTube and later the rest of platforms turned virtually the entire history of recorded music into something accessible from a mobile phone. No longer needed to buy a disc to listen to a disc. Nor was it necessary to load a Discman, find out where we had left the CD or find out too late that our fav…
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