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The Rise and Fall of the Compact Disc


CD sales - Chart: The Rise and Fall of the Compact Disc - Statista

This chart CD album sales in the United States since 1983.

The Rise and Fall of the Compact Disc - High Resolution Audio

The Rise and Fall of the Compact Disc where US CD sales have gone from a peak of 942.5 million copies in 2000 to 34.4 million in 2022.

Billboard Explains: The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of CDs

Billboard Explains dives into the evolution of CDs that began in the '80s, the downfall of the disk in the mid-2000s, and its possible ...

The Decline of the Compact Disc - Retro Manufacturing

In the United States, CD sales plummeted by 11.6% in 2015 and 18.5% in 2016. In fact, the popularity of CDs has dropped so much that by 2017, CD sales had ...

The Compact Disc: The rise and fall of the CD | History Stories

The arrival of the CD in 1981 changed the music world forever. In April 1981, when star conductor Herbert von Karajan launched the marketing ...

How the compact disc lost its shine | Music | The Guardian

The fall of the CD, like its rise, began slowly. When file-sharing first took off with Napster in 1999 and 2000, CD sales continued to ascend, ...

CD players turn 40: Do music compact discs have a comeback left?

The CD turns 40: Inside the meteoric rise and fall of the shiny disc that changed music ... The compact disc gave us our first taste of digital ...

The history of the CD's rise and fall | Digital Trends

The CD evolved from multiple optical mediums, and was eventually finalized in 1980 when Sony and Philips created the famed “Red Book” standard.

Rise and Fall of the CD - Apple Podcasts

On the afternoon of October 1, 1982, Sony introduced a new home stereo gizmo… it was the world's first compact disc player… they called it ...

What happened to the CDs? Once king of audio & data storage.

Just as the CD dethroned previous formats like cassettes and vinyl records, it too fell victim to the digital revolution and the insatiable ...

The rise and fall of music sales, by format (1973-2021)

CDs. First released in 1982, the Compact Disc or CD came into the music market as the successor to the vinyl record. Developed by Philips and ...

The Rise and Fall of the CD: A Music Revolution - YouTube

Dive into the fascinating history of the Compact Disc! Learn how this little shiny disc revolutionized music with its crystal-clear sound, ...

The Rise and Fall of the Compact Disc: A History | SchoolTube

The CD was born out of a collaboration between Philips and Sony in the late 1970s. The aim was to create a digital audio format that offered superior sound ...

The Rise and Fall of The Compact Disc - The Whale 99.1 FM

For example, I remember when the first compact disc player became available back in the early 1980's. It was very basic. It took one disc, and ...

Compact disc - Wikipedia

The CD is considered the last dominant audio format of the album era, as the rise of MP3, iTunes, cellular ringtones, and other downloadable music formats in ...

When did CD's Take a Front Seat to the Cassette Tape

In the summer of 2018, the music world officially closed the book on a format era as major retailers like Best Buy and Target began phasing out CD sales.

CD sales on the rise: Absurd nostalgia or Gen-Z trend?

CD sales are experiencing an unexpected resurgence and are now well ahead of digital download album sales.

ERA: CD sales increase for the first time in 20 years - Music Week

Vinyl album sales grew by 17.8% year-on-year in 2023 to reach £177.3m, while CD recorded its first rise ... However, the decline in CD sales ...

The rise and fall of CD sales in the US - The New Barcelona Post

In 2000, 943 million CDs were sold in the United States, the highest figure reached by this group. Since then, the annual units sold have been reduced by ...

We celebrate the compact disc, a ground-breaking audio format that ...

Technology giants Philips and Sony developed the CD format together. In 1979, a task force was set-up to create a digital audio disc and set a ...