The statistic above shows the retail value of annual physical CD shipments in the United States from 1999 to 2018. The 52 million physical albums shipped in 2018 had a retail value of 698.4 million U.S. dollars. This marks a significant decrease from 2017, where the retail value of the 87.7 million CDs shipped amounted to almost 1.06 billion U.S. dollars.
Retail value of physical album shipments in the U.S. from 1999 to 2018
Retail value of physical CD shipments in the United States from 1999 to 2018
(in billion U.S. dollars)
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RIAA. (February 28, 2019). Retail value of physical CD shipments in the United States from 1999 to 2018 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 14, 2019, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/186780/value-of-album-shipments-in-the-us-music-industry-since-1999/
RIAA. "Retail value of physical CD shipments in the United States from 1999 to 2018 (in billion U.S. dollars)." Chart. February 28, 2019. Statista. Accessed December 14, 2019. https://www.statista.com/statistics/186780/value-of-album-shipments-in-the-us-music-industry-since-1999/
RIAA. (2019). Retail value of physical CD shipments in the United States from 1999 to 2018 (in billion U.S. dollars). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 14, 2019. https://www.statista.com/statistics/186780/value-of-album-shipments-in-the-us-music-industry-since-1999/
RIAA. "Retail Value of Physical Cd Shipments in The United States from 1999 to 2018 (in Billion U.S. Dollars)." Statista, Statista Inc., 28 Feb 2019, https://www.statista.com/statistics/186780/value-of-album-shipments-in-the-us-music-industry-since-1999/
RIAA, Retail value of physical CD shipments in the United States from 1999 to 2018 (in billion U.S. dollars) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/186780/value-of-album-shipments-in-the-us-music-industry-since-1999/ (last visited December 14, 2019)