Vinyl sales have risen for 18 successive years and increased rapidly again, up 13% year-on-year to 7.6 million units.<\/p>\n
Swift’s Life Of A Showgirl led the pack, and the star scored another entry in the Top 10 with Lover (Live From Paris) – a limited edition release which was only available for 72 hours on Swift’s website. <\/p>\n
According to the Official Charts Company, it sold 47,000 copies in that short stretch of time; and subsequently became the first album to reach number one on pure sales (with no streams contributing to its total) in eight years. <\/p>\n
Overall, vinyl sales have doubled in the last decade, and are on course to overtake CDs for the first time since the 1990s.<\/p>\n
The two formats are now separated by just 2 million sales, with 9.7 million Compact Discs sold in 2025. Ten years ago, that figure was 47.3 million.<\/p>\n
Although it’s very much a niche market, cassettes also saw a 53.8% sales increase to 164,491 units in 2025.<\/p>\n