People bought 43 million vinyl records last year, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). That's 6 million more than the number of CDs sold in 2023, marking the second time since 1987 that's happened and reflecting the steady 17-year-running growth of vinyl sales.

It was in the 60s and 70s when vinyl records boomed in sales, but as CDs were introduced, they started to fall off. “By the late '80s,1990s, pretty much all vinyl production had stopped. Everyone switched to compact discs.

Price, ease of use and storage made the disc record dominant by the 1910s. The standard format of disc records became known to later generations as "78s" after their playback speed in revolutions per minute, although that speed only became standardized in the late 1920s.