Compact discs are seeing a modest resurgence as younger listeners rediscover physical music formats, even as long-term sales ...

Compact discs were sold as the durable alternative to vinyl - but anyone who opens the case of an ageing CD may be in for a nasty surprise. Earlier this year, US web designer Dan Koster found 15% of ...

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REPORTS of the death of the CD have been exaggerated. True, the compact disc is in decline, but there's plenty of life in the old dog yet, with sales of CDS dropping at a much slower rate than ...

On October 1, 1982, the first commercial compact disc, Billy Joel’s “52nd Street,” was released in Japan. In the 30 years since, hundreds of billions of CDs have been sold, Joel has stopped recording ...

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 ...

In-car radio was the only real way of listening to music in the car until the late 1960s The in-car vinyl record player never really took off... The first in-car cassette deck landed in 1968; the last ...

Exactly 25 years ago the world's first compact disc was produced at a Philips factory in Germany, sparking a global music revolution. More than 200 billion CDs have been sold worldwide since then and ...

How do you listen to your music? Spotify? YouTube? iTunes? Forty years ago the world got its first glimpse of what would become one of the most important music devices in history - the compact disc ...

On October 1, 1982, the first commercial compact disc, Billy Joel’s “52nd Street,” was released in Japan. In the 30 years since, hundreds of billions of CDs have been sold, Joel has stopped recording ...