Compact-disc burning and music downloading contributed to a 9 percent decline in CD shipments and a 6.8 percent slide in sales last year, the Recording Industry Association of America reported Friday.

With the proliferation of mp3 sales and illegal file-sharing over the past decade, CDs have become more and more a thing of the past. But at French Quarter Fest 2012, ...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation's leading seller of recorded music, is seeking to put the brakes on rapidly declining sales of compact discs as digital music downloads - paid and unpaid ...

So to put all in perspective, the last time compact disc sales went up, Zune was still a thing, Blink-182 didn’t break up and AIM was the preferred online communication.

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 million for vinyl and $483.2 million ...

Compact Disc’s star has well and truly faded. At its peak, at the turn of the century, just short of a billion silver discs were sold in the USA in a year. Fast forward to 2022 and that number had ...

Remembering the rise (and final fall) of the late, great Compact Disc By Ryan Waniata Published May 24, 2024 ... By 1988, CD sales eclipsed vinyl, and overtook the cassette in 1991. A very big box ...

So to put all in perspective, the last time compact disc sales went up, Zune was still a thing, Blink-182 didn’t break up and AIM was the preferred online communication.