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 ...

Back in the 1980s, Peter Giles knew that the fledgling music format, the compact disc, came with some compromises. CDs were smaller than vinyl record albums. That meant the end of the 12-inch album ...

The following story ran in the first-ever issue of SPIN in May 1985. Compact discs and compact disc players are the hottest things to hit the audio market since cassette tapes and players. However, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dire Straits in 1985 - Deborah Feingold/Getty Forty years ago this week, the British rock band Dire Straits released their fifth ...

In 2021, CD sales increased for the first time in 17 years. That’s mostly because of Adele, whose new album sold 898,000 of those shiny little discs. The last time CDs were this hot, Usher, Ashlee ...

Streaming music platforms have been in the news quite a bit recently, and not for good reasons. A lot of people who use streaming music services (which includes virtually all of us) are also quite ...

This summer marks 40 years since the arrival of Bruce Springsteen's seminal Born in the U.S.A. album, but the milestone is just a tip of the iceberg for music lovers across the country. It's now 40 ...

CD sales saw a modest increase in 2023, with 36.83 million units sold, briefly reversing years of decline. Gen Z is now buying more CDs than older generations, driving renewed interest in physical ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Sony DADC is cutting about 100 workers at a western Indiana plant that began cranking out compact discs in the 1980s and will move all of the plant’s gaming and disc ...

MUMBAI, May 26 (Reuters) - Compact Disc India Ltd said on Monday it has entered into an agreement with Singapore's Golden Games Pte Ltd to transfer intellectual property rights for an animated ...