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- Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Thirty-three years ago this month, in March 1983, America got its first whirl at the compact disc. CDs first launched in Japan, but they didn’t make their way to the States until several months later.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/march-1983-cds-launch-in-america/624802/
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We live in a world of music. Whether when driving to work or jamming out at home, people around the world like to have their favorite tunes playing in the background. But while our love for music has been constant, the way we consume mediahas evolved drastically. The past 50 years have seen many different music formats used to access these tunes, m...
Up until the late 1980s, vinyl dominated the music format industry, earning billions of dollars in sales annually. Records of Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run or Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moonwere some of the top selling albums available. Vinyl is said to provide its listeners with analog soundsthat reverberate and the warm notes of almost-live ...
If you’re a millennial (or younger), you may have never heard of the 8-track. But this music format played an integral part in the history of music. When the booming automotive vehicle industry found it challenging to translate the music experience to cars using vinyl, it looked to the “Stereo 8” eight-track cartridge, better known as the 8-track. ...
The era of cassettes pushed 8-tracks into the history of music in the early 1980s. These pocket-sized tapes were more convenientto use than 8Tracks and quickly spread worldwide. By 1989, the cassette format reached its peak revenues of $3.7 billion.
First released in 1982, the Compact Discor CD came into the music market as the successor to the vinyl record. Developed by Philips and Sony, sales of the sleek and portable CD grew quickly as home and car stereos alike added CD functionality. The format brought in $13.3 billionin revenue in both 1999 and 2000. To date, no other music format has re...
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Mar 2, 2016 · Thirty-three years ago this month, in March 1983, America got its first whirl at the compact disc. CDs first launched in Japan, but they didn’t make their way to the States until several...
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Mar 2, 2023 · But it was March of 1983 that saw the first compact discs hitting the U.S. market. Early CDs cost about $15, which CNN estimates was about $35 in 2012 money (when they did their compact disc retrospective). The first CD-only record label, Rykodisc, followed in January 1984.
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Mar 14, 2022 · According to data from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), shipments of compact discs rose from 31.6 million in 2020 to 46.6 million in 2021 – a rise of 47 per cent. Revenue also rose from $483.2 million to $584.2 million. The last time sales of CDs were on the up was in 2004.
