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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...
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. At a time before...
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The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. It uses the Compact Disc Digital Audio format which typically provides 74 minutes of audio on a disc.
Aug 17, 2022 · The Compact Disc became popular in the late 1980s and evolved into a hallmark of 90s and early-aughts culture. Better than cassette tapes and smaller than vinyls, CDs changed how and where we...
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Mar 2, 2023 · Besides eliciting a condescending “Who?” response from anyone under 30, they are all classic rock and pop artists who helped usher in the compact disc (CD) era, which debuted in the United States on March 2, 1983 — 40 years ago today — when CBS Records released 16 titles in the burgeoning format.
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Jan 19, 2022 · If you’re looking to focus on something cool for an hour, without getting up to flip sides every 20 minutes, the compact disc has what you want, bigger and louder.
