Adele’s ’30’ was 2021’s top-selling CD, accounting for more than 2% of all the format’s sales — and leading an over all increase in units.
were given personally signed CD editions through Swift’s official web store; the superstar signed so many copies that she, “I may never write the same again, as my hand is now frozen in the permanent shape of a claw.”
The increase in CD sales in 2021 can also be chalked up to retail conditions in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of many brick-and-mortar music stores. In 2020, CD sales were down 26% compared to 2019 sales — the format’s biggest year-to-year decline ever, dropping from 54.2 million in 2019 to 40.16 million in 2020.
U.S. retail stores shutting down beginning in March 2020 may have contributed to that drop — just like those stores reopening in 2021 may have contributed to last year’s increase. If 2021 doesn’t reflect a resurgence for CDs, at the very least, the format could have hit its bottom in 2020, and its 2021 performance could be an indication that it is presence in the marketplace is stabilizing.
One harbinger for a sustained CD resurgence: it wasn’t just new albums that led to the yearly sales increase. Sales of catalog CDs — defined as albums that are 18 months or older, and have fallen below No. 100 on thealbums chart — were up 1.4% in 2021, with 24.49 million catalog CDs sold last year compared to 16.1 million current CDs sold in 2021.
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