Last Year’s Five Best-Selling Cassettes Were All Taylor Swift And Guardians Of The Galaxy Albums
Cassette sales are still a very small fraction of the recorded music retail market — just 0.41% of all albums sold in the US last year — but sales have been steadily rising for the past decade, fueled in part by a nostalgia factor among younger listeners and limited-edition runs from major artists. It will come as no surprise that Taylor Swift accounts for two of the top five best-selling cassettes from 2023, per figures just released by
Billboard
. Her two re-recorded albums from last y...
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Cassette sales are still a very small fraction of the recorded music retail market — just 0.41% of all albums sold in the US last year — but sales have been steadi... more info