Topic summary
Vinyl LP
Extracted from the Wikipedia article LP record.
Public reception
Although the popularity of LPs (as well as 45s) began to decline in the late 1970s with the advent of cassette tapes, and later in the 1980s with the advent of digital compact discs, the LP survives as a format to the present day. Vinyl LP records enjoyed a resurgence in popularity throughout the 2010s, and US vinyl sales in 2017 reached 15.6 million and 27 million for 2020. In 2022, US vinyl sales reached 41 million units, surpassing sales of the compact disc for the first time since 1987, once again making the LP the highest selling physical format there.