Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, music shops are shuttering -- and struggling to survive -- and Amazon is focusing on household goods.
What's in store for physical retail? In the week ending March 19, Niall Horan sold 26,000 physical copies of his album Heartbreak Weather -- which made it both the most popular physical album of the week and a sobering sign for the future of physical music.
Stores are shutting down to stop the spread of the coronavirus, and in mid-March Amazon announced it would not re-stock records and CDs until at least early April.
As CD sales continue to decline and the high-margin vinyl business faces manufacturing and distribution problems, can the physical business survive?