CDs are a lot more portable than records, and being able to rip them to your devices also allows you to listen to the music without having the physical CD on you.

Vinyl sales accounted for about 71 per cent of physical format revenues in 2022, with records bringing in about US$1.2 billion (just over $1.6 billion), meanwhile, CD sales amounted to a paltry US ...

Vinyl, which tends to be pricier than the newer format, also far outstripped CDs in actual money made, raking in $1.4 billion compared to $537 million from CDs. The RIAA’s report shows that CD ...

Vinyl's dynamic range, as you may have guessed by this section's title, is inferior to that of CDs, full stop. CDs can reach up to 96 dB of range, while vinyl records are stuck at about 70 dB.

Viral Trends Vinyl records have taken over — and growing more popular than streaming By Brooke Kato Published Dec. 3, 2024, 9:23 a.m. ET ...