Last year, almost 40.6 million CDs were sold, which is an increase of 1.1 percent compared to the year before.

This is the first time in 17 years that sales of the format have increased.

According to Billboard, the growing CD sales were driven by a number of major record releases, such as Taylor Swift's "Evermore" and Adele's "30".

At the same time, the market is dominated by streamed music.

Physical records account for less than a tenth of the music industry's revenue in the United States, according to figures from 2020. In the United States and the United Kingdom, revenues from vinyl records have also been converted to CDs in recent times.