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.

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 ...

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 ...

A developer has dusted off an almost 20-year-old software project for burning visual artwork onto the data surface of a Compact Disc. Arduinocelentano stresses that the applied imaging technique ...

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.

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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 ...

(CNN)-- If you think the musical compact disc is dying or dead, you're probably younger than it is. "Show me a teenager buying a Susan Boyle album on CD and I'll show you someone buying a gift for ...

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 ...