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CDs are no longer the top music format. Last year also marked the end of a 25-year reign of music CDs dominating recorded music as the top, single-most popular music format.

CDs album unit sales in 2017 fell 19% to 85.4 million, Nielsen Music says. At the peak, consumers bought nearly 712 million CD albums in 2001. What the future holds for the CD is uncertain.

Music CDs offered convenience – and quality. The ease CDs offered – compared to vinyl LPs, cassettes and 8-track tapes – helped them become the dominant music format in the 1990s and 2000s ...

CDs are the most reasonably priced of all physical music formats. There’s no doubting CDs are expensive compared to streaming services, but they’re far and away the most reasonably priced of ...

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 returns on opened CDs.

CDs are also doing fine in some international markets – in Japan, where streaming has been slow to take off, 72 percent of last year’s music sales were physical.

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Like British music magazines, which nearly all now come in cellophane bags that also contain that issue's free CD, their American counterparts are starting to glue compilation CDs to their pages ...

MP3s are convenient, but no matter how high the bit rate, they're still lossy music files. We'll show you how to rip your music CDs to FLAC files, which are superior in sound quality.