My daughter's friend, Aanya, is seventeen. Last month, she spent her entire Diwali gift money on a single item. Not a phone. Not sneakers. Not concert tickets.
A vinyl record. A 1977 Fleetwood Mac album, to be exact.
Her parents were baffled. "It's just a big, fragile CD," her dad told me, genuinely confused. But Aanya didn't care. She'd saved for weeks, hunted it down at a store two hours away, and now it sits on
And she loves it more than any playlist she's ever made.
Let's be honest: on paper, this makes zero sense. But the numbers don't lie. Gen Z isn't just dabbling in vinyl — they're the ones pushing record sales to historic highs in 2024. So what's actually go
## The Numbers That Made the Music Industry Blink
I've been following the vinyl revival for years, and even I was surprised by 2024's figures. Vinyl records outsold CDs for the umpteenth year running, and the format generated more revenue than it has
Here's the part that really matters: **a huge chunk of those buyers are under 25.** This isn't nostalgia. Nostalgia belongs to people my age who remember flipping records at a store. Gen Z wasn't even
Vinyl sales hit historic highs in 2024 — and Gen Z is leading the charge. Here's the surprising truth behind why young f