Compact discs are creating a boom for the struggling music industry by offering music lovers stereo recordings free of snaps, crackles and pops. The technology, relatively unknown three years ago ...

With compact-disc sales plummeting, record companies are rethinking how to distribute copyright music online. This time, the technology for managing digital rights could actually be smart enough ...

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, ...

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.

Digital downloads are taking a toothy bite out of compact disc sales and the music industry's bottom line. Compact disc sales have been in a freefall since 2000, dropping 20 percent in the U.S ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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Compact Disc Sales Plummet 20% Since Start of Year. Mar. 21, 2007 5:41 AM ET Warner Music Group Corp. (WMG-RETIRED) ... CD sales for Q1 2007 are 20% below what they were last year.

EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS — It was Aug. 17, 1982, and row upon row of palm-size plates with a rainbow sheen began rolling off an assembly line near Hanover, Germany. An engineering marvel at the ...