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  2. Compact disc - Wikipedia

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    After their commercial release in 1982, compact discs and their players were extremely popular. Despite costing up to $1,000, over 400,000 CD players were sold in the United States between 1983 and 1984. [14] By 1988, CD sales in the United States surpassed those of vinyl LPs, and, by 1992, CD sales surpassed those of prerecorded music-cassette ...

  3. Compact Disc Digital Audio - Wikipedia

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    After their commercial release in 1982, compact discs and their players were extremely popular. Despite costing up to $1,000, over 400,000 CD players were sold in the United States between 1983 and 1984. [21] By 1988, CD sales in the United States surpassed those of vinyl LPs, and, by 1992, CD sales surpassed those of prerecorded music-cassette ...

  4. Album era - Wikipedia

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    In 2006, CD sales were outnumbered for the first time by single downloads, with digital music consumers buying singles over albums by a margin of 19 to 1. [68] By 2009, album sales had more than halved since 1999, declining from a $14.6 to $6.3 billion industry. [78]

  5. CD player - Wikipedia

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    After their commercial release in 1982, compact discs and their players were extremely popular. Despite costing up to $1,000, over 400,000 CD players were sold in the United States between 1983 and 1984. [7]

  6. Prediction: CDs Won't Be as Popular in 2025 for These 2 ... - AOL

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    Image source: The Motley Fool/Upsplash. There's a reason CDs have been a pretty popular savings option this year. For much of 2024, it was possible to lock in a 5% CD.

  7. Album - Wikipedia

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    By the mid-1950s, 45s dominated the singles market and 12" LPs dominated the album market and both 78s and 10" LPs were discontinued. In the 1950s albums of popular music were also issued on 45s, sold in small heavy paper-covered "gate-fold" albums with multiple discs in sleeves or in sleeves in small boxes. This format disappeared around 1960.

  8. Record shop - Wikipedia

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    Even when CDs became popular during the 1990s, people in English-speaking countries still continued using the term "record shop" to describe a shop selling sound recordings. With the vinyl revival of the 21st century, often generating more income than CDs, the name is again accurate.

  9. CD single - Wikipedia

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    In the US, the Billboard Hot 100 made this change in December 1998, [7] after which very few songs were released in the CD single format in the US, but they remained extremely popular in other countries, where charts were still based solely on single sales and not radio airplay. [citation needed]