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 ...

Now, when music has a sampling rate and bit depth — things like CD, FLAC, and WAV — it’s known as lossless. That’s because no (or very, very little) information is thrown away.

In 2000, record sales were dropping thanks to file sharing, and suddenly, used CDs were a much bigger problem for record ...

So, major labels are reportedly musing on their CD exit strategy, major retailers such as HMV are desperately clearing discs from their shelves and many serious music fans – and stores – have ...

With CDs widely viewed by younger generations as relics of the past, Chance is putting a twist on the traditional listening ...

Total CD album sales of $4.3 billion in 1991, made up 55.4% of the total recorded music revenue that year, according to the RIAA. In 1999, consumers spent $13 billion on CDs – 88% of the $14.6 ...

Fully digitizing the 151,000 unique commercial CDs (music content, disc covers and liner notes) will protect them from wear and tear over time, thus keeping them available to production teams.

Through the whole run of CD dominance, then, studios were recording at 96kHz, but the CDs were made from a file that had been converted to 44.1kHz. That’s not a good multiple; it involves resampling ...

How CDs Came To Be Resold As the 1990s ticked by, more retailers began to offer used CDs. One catalyst for this was that, in March 1991, Sony Music announced it would no longer accept retailer ...