[3xblah]

Cassette and vinyl sales are both up from 2017.

What strikes me about a report like this is that the report is comfortable comparing sales to "consumption".

Are these really the same?

Third parties do not necessarily know how many times someone cues up a track on their turntable or tape deck. (Unless today's turntables and tape decks are being engineered to "phone home".) Instead they measure sales of physical media containing copies.

On the other hand, with respect to so-called "streaming" the report says about 85% of this type of consumption is from subscriptions. But curiously the report does not measure subscription sales/renewals.

Maybe I missed something.

[saaaaaam]

Cassette and vinyl sales are both up - but still represent a tiny fraction of music sales - vinyl Is about 3% or 4% of sales in the UK.

As regards comparing consumption to sales: this is a fairly standard “equivalent” used in the music industry.

I’m unclear on what else you are saying. You say “so-called ‘streaming’” but why is it “so-called”? It’s pretty clear that the market has shifted to access over ownership or “so-called ‘streaming’”. Subscription streaming services are growing rapidly year-on-year. The stats are easy to find - perhaps the author didn’t feel it was necessary to quote numbers that are fairly widely discussed in mainstream and specialist media.