The CD album was by far the biggest money-making music format in Australia last year, despite the revenues it generated falling 18.6%.
CD albums generated AUS $115.3m in 2014, down $26m from the $141.74m they created in 2013.
That made it the only format to pull in more than $100m according to new ARIA data, ahead of digital track sales, which generated AUS $85.2m, and digital albums, which generated AUS $67.1m.
The volume of CD album sales was down 11.7% in 2014 to 12,563,714, from the 14,226,201 sold in Australia in 2013.
CD wasn’t Australia’s worst hit physical music format in 2014, however: music video / DVD sales were effectively slashed in half in 2014, down 47% from AUS $14.29m in 2013 to AUS $7.57 in 2014.
The volume of music video/DVD units sold also dropped 47%, to 757,645.
And then there was vinyl. Income created by the format-of-the-moment jumped up 127% in the year to AUS $2.84m, but this represented just 0.75% of the total market.
Unit sales of vinyl albums were up by 101% overall to 277,767.
