I always thought that the album selling burst was partially a novelty sell, i did not take it seriously partly due to first timers that thought they wanted to get into vinyl, bought their first turntable, realized you needed a little patience and work to use it right to get the most enjoyment and sound quality, adjust, clean, not mess up the needle exc, then in some millennials fashion, the table sets unused, the i phone remains their music source , so sure its possibly declining or should, just like used broken entry level turntables have increased on CL, and Ebay . I have never purchased a new album, but am trying to narrow down 3-400 clean used keeper albums from a batch of 3000 recently received. That takes some time and work also. the record sales will drop and level out, selling mostly to the vinyl lifers. just my opinion of course.