What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital?

My son (a college kid) and some of his friends buy LPs. They buy many LPs from new artists that many of Agoners may have never heard of. Some of them cost A LOT, over $50, or even over $100. We are not talking about 1st press Beatles or 50/60s jazz albums.
Do you imagine listening to Kanye West’s music in LPs?
An interesting thing is, those new LPs sound just like CDs or even streaming, and I ask my son why he buys LPs. He says, it is cool to play vinyls, and maybe for investment.
For me, about 60% vinyl and 40% CD/streaming.

vinowino,
Try buying a good CD player and you might feel differently.

I listen to vinyl exclusively. I don`t have the will and the money to buy any DAC or CD player what would be comperable to my TT and cartridge (Ikeda 9TT). I rather choose one format than dealing with the additional problems (cables, space, rack etc). Budget purist only option is vinyl.    R2R would be even better but I don`t have that kind of money. But I envy people would settle with less. If convinience would have the priority I would only stream. D-class integrated amps are pretty good nowadays and a pair of Voxativ speakers with subs would do excellent job. A really good vinyl setup with selected LPs would always beat every other format than R2R. Does it worth those 1000s of hours and money? The other one is just plug and play. Even the room correction is done. I am tempted too, but it just doesn`t sounds that good and I have the will and the passion to chase the magic dragon.

@buck66

“I listen to CD exclusively. I just bought my retirement system, several years early. I figure I can enjoy it while I wait to retire. This is the best sounding system I have ever owned....”

I did exactly the same thing. Bought my retirement system a few years before retiring. It was wonderful. Then I retired. I upgraded my headphone system... that led to upgrading my main system. So over the last year I went through the largest upgrade I have ever done. Post retirement system. My streamer plays at a minimum Red book sound quality... but much of the hundreds of thousand of albums on Qubuz are of higher quality. My vinyl playback is even better. More time... more audio... at least for me.

Vinyl, within epsilon of 100%. Can't remember the last time I powered up the Linn SACD player - and it's not even in the main system.