Cable TV subscriptions

The world is cutting the cord and spinning more records at exactly the same rate. One would like to believe this represents a meaningful shift toward the analog. It probably just represents two different things happening to fall at the same moment.

Cable subscriptions have been in long decline as streaming eats the market, with 2020 accelerating the cord-cutting exodus sharply as locked-down households cancelled bundles, while vinyl record sales surged the same year as housebound listeners rediscovered physical music and outsold CDs for the first time since 1986. One medium is shrinking; the other found its moment.

So the correlation is a small nostalgia report from 2020. The cable went; the turntable came back. The living room, quietly, changed hands.