Are vinyl records out selling other media?

Lady dressed in vintage 1940's outfit looking at a vintage store clothes rack.

Vintage is in.

And vintage music media is also very popular. You will hear that vinyl records are now outselling all other physical media. This sounds like a surprising statement and it needs looking into.

Maybe a better question is what are people listening to?

Well for most its streaming, then there’s those who buy Flac/mp3 etc files. For physical media most people are listening to CD’s so how come the headline?

Well many people are buying records to collect, people who do not even have record players. Then lets look at that original statement and what do they mean its out selling other media, well by value it is leading the charge, but with many records now costing £30 to £50 a record, while a new CD can often be picked up for £8. That’s a big difference. You need to sell three to five CD’s to equate to the value of one vinyl record.