
Music album shipments in the U.S. 2017-2022, by type
According to data on the number of album shipments in the United States in 2022, a total of 33.4 million CD albums and 23.9 million LPs and EPs were shipped. Nonetheless, these figures are both down from the 2021 shipment numbers, when the CD shipments and LPs and EPs shipments amounted to 46.7 million and 40 million respectively.