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Feb 7, 2018 · Released on CD in May 1985, the hit album became a musical mainstay, and vinyl fans and audiophiles began to purchase CD players in droves to adopt the growing format. By 1988, CD sales...
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Mar 12, 2019 · Forty years ago the world got its first glimpse of what would become one of the most important music devices in history - the compact disc (CD). The CD was invented in 1979.
First released in Japan in October 1982, the CD was the second optical disc technology to be invented, after the much larger LaserDisc (LD). By 2007, 200 billion CDs (including audio CDs, CD-ROMs and CD-Rs) had been sold worldwide.
Oct 28, 2022 · Before MP3s and streaming services entered the conversation, there were CDs — the shiny disk that made history and an impact on music. In Japan on Oct. 1, 1982, Billy Joel’s 52nd Street...
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Sep 28, 2012 · The digital music revolution officially hit 30 years ago, on Oct. 1, 1982. While you may be surprised to learn that the heralds of the coming age were, in fact, the Bee Gees, it...
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...
Jan 13, 2023 · From the start of the early 2000s, CDs had started to be replaced by other forms of digital storage and distribution. The massive shift to internet consumption and the introduction of digital music, available through downloads, pushed audio CD sales down rapidly.
