You’ve heard this sound bite before: old-school music format surges in popularity. But vinyl’s just the start of it.
According to the Luminate Midyear Report, the rise in CD sales outpaced vinyl through the first half of 2026, fueled by the popularity of the BTS album Arirang.
It’s far from a fluke. Even if you remove all of K-pop, CD sals still grew by 6.7 percent, a trend supported by a steady string of high-end hardware releases from Marantz, Bang & Olufsen, Cambridge Audio and more.
Before you go dusting off your old collection of ’90s grunge, however, check out the page of Instagram creator @mister_minimalist, who found an ingenious hack for storing a small collection of CDs.
Here’s the twist: it’s hiding in IKEA’s kitchen section.