Vinyl came back · 1983–2025

RIAA US Revenue Database, official embedded Tableau Download view, retrieved 22 October 2026. LP/EP and CD, CPI Adjustment divided by one billion. 86 complete annual source observations; no cumulative sum or missing-value fill. Source inflation adjustment to 2025 dollars is retained, not independently reconstructed. Wholesale revenue throughout, not retail spending, unit counts or listening activity. Historical estimates may be revised. Excludes second-hand sales, singles, other physical formats and streaming. Annual transitions are animated, not additional measurements. The latest historical unit cells are empty and are not used. Separate 2025 and H1 2026 unit counts in the article are explicitly outside this dataset. Full supporting notes: /examples/vinyl-cd-20261023/sources.html

Selected factual observations attributed to RIAA; no new licence over RIAA publications or the full underlying database is claimed. ChartGlow provides the selected figures and editable chart for exploration. Images have separate rights: turntable photograph by János Venczák, Unsplash License; vinyl illustration by Andrikkos and CD scan by Liamz2r, public domain as documented on Wikimedia Commons. Sources and credits linked from the analysis.