Vinyl sales double in 2008 to almost 2 million units (almost 3 million for 2009)

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A music-buying public enamoured of digital downloads may be abandoning the compact disc in droves, but one physical medium is staging a tiny comeback.

Amid otherwise gloomy music sales numbers released by Nielsen Co. this week, vinyl record sales doubled compared with the year before.

The number of long-play vinyl records sold in the United States rose to 1.88 million units, compared with 990,000 the year before.

"From what I'm gathering, strangely enough, it's the younger generation that are really kind of going back to (vinyl),'' said Roy Trakin, editor of the U.S. music industry website Hits.

And that 990,000 from 2007 was a 15% overall increase from 2006, so 2008 has really seen some leaps and bounds in vinyl sales.

The highest selling title was Radiohead's "In Rainbows", Abbey Road was 2nd.

CD sales were down 20% last year.

CD - 361 million
Digital Downloads - 66 million
Vinyl - 2 million