The massive sales of new vinyl records has been an ongoing story in the music business, with 48 million new vinyl records sold in 2025, a $1 billion business for a music industry that has all but switched over to streaming. That said, used vinyl is a force to be reckoned with in its own right. The statistics around the secondhand vinyl business aren’t nearly touted as much as the new vinyl business — after all, the artists and the labels don’t actually make any money from it — but it’s a much larger slice of the music industry than one might expect. While not quite as big as the 269 percent increase in sales for new vinyl since 2016, sales of used records grew 171 percent over the period. Indeed, with an estimated 42 million used vinyl records sold in the U.S. in 2025, that’s bigger than the 34 million CD sales logged last year.
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