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- The Compact Disc turns 40 this year, and there are already signals the format is primed for a mini revival. For the first time in 17 years, CD sales actually went up - and by almost 50 percent, according to the RIAA’s sales database. It’s still a long way from the format’s peak.
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Jul 7, 2022 · Compact discs are the latest obsolete music format to be revived. Here’s how we got to know them the first time around four decades ago. Like vinyl before it, an old format shows signs of...
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.
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Country star Thomas Rhett's most recent album, the 2022 release "Where We Started," is available on vinyl, CD and cassette – and, of course, as a digital download or stream. "Everyone is streaming music," Rhett told USA TODAY. But over the last few years, there's been a move to make music available in more physical formats, he said. "There's someth...
For international touring band Radkey, sales of CDs and vinyl at the Kansas City band's live gigs help keep the show on the road. "You can always count on your merch sales to pay the gas and hotel and stuff like that," said bassist Isaiah Radke. "CDs still do pretty good," he said. "I feel like they're kind of coming back in a way." Coming back ind...
Streaming services drove music spending to a record $15.9 billion in 2022, accounting for 84% of all spending, the RIAA said. Music streamed through subscription services, ad-supported services, digital radio, social media, digital fitness apps and other options collectively amounted to $13.3 billion. Paid subscriptions to services such as Spotify ...
Consumers bought more vinyl LPs than CDs for the first time since 1987, according to the RIAA. Consumers bought 41.3 million vinyl LPs and 200,000 vinyl singles in 2022, an increase of 3.2%. CD sales decreased 28% to 33.4 million albums and 100,000 CD singles. Spending on vinyl LPs, which typically cost more, passed CD revenues in 2020 with $643.9 ...
Sony and Philips, which brought to market the laserdisc in 1978, began developing the compact disc in 1979. The first player and discs were released in Japan in 1982, followed by Europe and the U.S. in March 1983. The first CD released in Japan? Billy Joel's "52nd Street." During that initial 1983 launch in the U.S., only 75 stores in the country s...
Digital data is stored in a long spiral string of microscopic bumps – or pits, if viewed from above – measuring 125 nanometers in height or depth (in a weird coincidence, that's equal to the microscopic size of a COVID-19 virus particle). The data string making up the album on a music CD, if stretched out straight, would be about 3.5 miles long, ac...
Several factors drove CD's success. Record labels and electronics makers could charge more than they did for vinyl LPs and turntables. CDs may have cost more, but consumers could see the value. "From a purely convenience standpoint, the CD was unbeatable," said Ken Pohlmann, columnist for Sound & Visionand author of Principles of Digital Audio. "Di...
Eight years after the CD's arrival, it became the dominant format surpassing the audiocassette. Total CD album sales of $4.3 billion in 1991, made up 55.4% of the total recorded music revenue that year, according to the RIAA. In 1999, consumers spent $13 billion on CDs – 88% of the $14.6 billion spent on music. In today's dollars, adjusted for infl...
When the format was being designed in the 1980s, optical discs were the obvious storage media because of their ability to store millions of bytes of data (many minutes of music) at low cost. "Once solid-state memory became affordable, MP3 players and iPods proliferated," Pohlmann said. "That was the death knell for CDs because they had all the adva...
Nov 26, 2023 · The compact disc isn't going anywhere yet, but for the first time in ages, it has credible competition. And it's not vinyl, either.
Jan 19, 2022 · Jewel-Box Heroes: Why the CD Revival Is Finally Here. Compact discs never had the romance of vinyl or the convenience of MP3s. But they're still the ideal format for getting lost inside your...
Compared with vinyl, CDs are more sonically reliable and easier to lug between rented flats – and they still satisfy the need for a physical collection. So when will the compact disc get its great revival?
Jul 1, 2022 · Compact Discs are making a comeback, kinda. The shiny digital format is gaining new fans thanks to new gear and of course new music. Here's how to get onboard.
