Vinyl sales in the US cracked $1 billion in 2025, marking the first time vinyl has crossed that threshold this century. According to a new year-end revenue report from RIAA, an estimated 46.8 million units of new vinyl amounting to $1.04 billion were sold last year, with a 5% increase in physical sales overall from 2024. (For comparison, CDs moved $312.4 million in 2025.)
This is the 19th consecutive year we've seen vinyl sales grow in the US, and unsurprisingly, Taylor Swift had a big hand in that; her October 2025 album The Life Of A Showgirl — which came in at least eight vinyl variants — sold roughly 1.6 million copies last year. In second place comes Sabrina Carpenter's Man’s Best Friend, which sold around 292,000 copies on vinyl, and Kendrick Lamar's GNX lands in third with 272,000 copies sold.
That data comes from music sales tracker Luminate, which shared the list of the top 10 albums sold on vinyl in 2025. The only two albums on the list not released this century are Fleetwood Mac's Rumors (190,000 copies) and Michael Jackson's Thriller (182,000 copies). Incidentally, Thriller was released in 1982; the last calendar year that vinyl raked in over $1 billion was 1983.
