I wondered that too. How much do total CD and record sales compare to the record sales of decades ago, for example?
Aren’t more people listening online or downloading music, than listening to either a record or a compact disc?
I have a couple of hundred vinyl records (mostly from the 60s70s). I started buying CDs to replace these in the early 2000s. Then I found out I could just download the songs so from 2010 on I do just that. I don’t like any music made after 1979 or so. Though I like music from big band, rock and roll, blues, bluegrass, country, and classical.