Vinyl Generates More Revenue Than YouTube Music, VEVO, SoundCloud, and Free Spotify COMBINED

Vinyl sales have been surging for years. But now, the oldest format on the market is generating more revenues than all ad-supported on-demand streaming music services, combined. According to data released this week by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA), vinyl sales reached $221.8 million on 9.2 million units at the half-point of this year in the US, a 52.1 percent year-over-year surge.

That’s more than all music royalties generated by YouTube Music, VEVO, SoundCloud, free Spotify, and all ad-supported, on-demand streaming music platforms combined during the same period.

Collectively, free music streaming earned $162.7 million during the first six months of this year, according to the same RIAA data set.

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The vinyl total also includes EPs, though singles (45s) separately sold $4.2 million on a volumes of roughly 400,000 units.