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Retail value of physical album shipments in the U.S. from 1999 to 2017

Retail value of physical CD shipments in the United States from 1999 to 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)

Retail value of physical album shipments in the U.S. from 1999 to 2017

The statistic above shows the retail value of annual physical CD shipments in the United States from 1999 to 2017. The 87.6 million physical albums shipped in 2017 had a retail value of 1.06 billion U.S. dollars.

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The statistic above shows the retail value of annual physical CD shipments in the United States from 1999 to 2017. The 87.6 million physical albums shipped in 2017 had a retail value of 1.06 billion U.S. dollars.

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Release date: March 2018

Region: United States
Survey time period: 1999 to 2017
Special properties: includes only CDs / net shipments after returns
Supplementary notes: From 2016 onwards, the figure includes both CD albums and CD singles.
Figures for the period 2004 to 2015 were taken from RIAA's earlier publications.
Figures have been rounded.

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