Music fans discuss CDs' decline as vinyl's resurgence reclaims its place in listening trends.

Vinyl sales have been steadily increasing for 16 years, well after modern innovations like compact discs (CDs) and MP3s made old-fashioned records seemingly obsolete.

There was something 'magnificently innocent' about vinyl LPs. Maybe that's why, after CDs drove records into 20 years of obscurity, vinyl started to make a comeback.

Vinyl sales grew for the 16th consecutive year in 2022, with 41 million albums sold — compared to 33 million CDs. Streaming is still the biggest driver of the music industry's growth.

Somehow, someway, vinyl records keep defying the odds. Despite falling firmly behind compact disc sales for decades, the vintage physical music medium returned to the top spot in 2022 for the ...

Until the recording industry will redo CDs or DVD-Audio/SACD from the master tapes, vinyl records will probably be superior in audio fidelity for records that were originally introduced in the 1960s ...

If you are making music, which one is better: CD or vinyl? Since the vinyl record format’s recent comeback, there has been an increasing discourse about what physical audio format is better between ...

CDs cost significantly less to produce than vinyl records, and are therefore significantly less expensive. In the used market especially, CDs can go for very cheap prices.