CD和黑胶唱片销售额多年来首次超过数字下载音乐

录制音乐销售数据显示，激光唱片（CD）和黑胶唱片销售额2011年以来首次超过数字下载音乐。

随着流媒体服务变得越发普遍，近几年数字下载音乐销售额显著下滑，实体唱片销售因而得以占据上风。

不过，这并不是说黑胶唱片和CD表现良好。美国唱片业协会（RIAA）最近公布的2017年底报告表明，2017年实体介质音乐销售额同比下降4%，而数字下载音乐销售额的滑坡幅度远远超过前者，达到25%。

同样是在2017年，Spotify、Apple Music、Pandora和Tidal等平台的付费音乐订阅量上升了50%。流媒体的成长使美国音乐行业整体销售额提高了16.5%，达到87亿美元，这也是1999年以来美国音乐行业收入连续两年出现大幅增长。

不过，美国音乐行业距自己的巅峰还有很长一段路要走。虽然2017年收入和2008年相当，但与最高水平相比还有40%的差距。（财富中文网）

译者：Charlie

审校：夏林

For the first time since 2011, CDs and vinyl have eclipsed digital downloads in terms of recorded music sales.

The reason: Digital download sales have dropped significantly over the past few years because of the growing popularity of streaming services, allowing the sale of physical albums sales to gain an edge.

That doesn’t mean vinyl and CDs are doing well, however. Sales of physical media declined 4% in 2017 from the year before, while digital downloads took a much larger 25% drop, according to the RIAAs recently-released 2017 year-end report.

Meanwhile, paid music subscriptions to services like Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, and Tidal grew 50% in 2017. That increase in streaming was enough to help the music industry report a 16.5% overall increase in sales to $8.7 billion, marking the first time since 1999 that U.S. music revenues grew materially for two years in a row.

That said, the music industry is still a long way from its zenith. While its 2017 revenue numbers matched its sales in 2008, it is still 40% below peak levels.