Vinyl is hardly the only medium making a resurgence among music listeners. Cassette tape album sales increased 23 percent in the U. S. during 2018,…
Vinyl is hardly the only medium making a resurgence among music listeners. Cassette tape album sales increased 23 percent in the U. S. during 2018, Billboard reported Thursday.
Domestic sales of cassette albums totaled 219,000 tapes in 2018, up nearly a quarter from 178,000 sold during the previous year, according to Nielsen Music statistics cited by the magazine.
A dominant format decades earlier, sales of cassette tapes constituted a fraction of one percent of the 141 million records sold last year across all mediums, according to Billboard’s data, placing it well behind competing formats like on-demand streams, digital downloads and compact discs.
