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Ongoing History of New Music Daily: Mispressed Records

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Alan Cross 1 Comment CDs, Compact Discs, Lawrence Welk, Mispressed CDs

I often get emails from people asking about mispressed CDs and records. Occasionally, there are mixups at the pressing plant

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Music Industry 

Can you safely and properly recycle CDs? Yes, but…

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020 Alan Cross 2 Comments CDs, Compact Discs

Look around your place. How many CDs do you have? How many of them still spark joy? How many have

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Music News 

Should we still be buying CDs? Yes.

July 5, 2020July 5, 2020 Alan Cross 4 Comments CDs, Compact Discs

I think the last time I bought a CD was in the UK about 18 months ago. I’d stumbled on

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Music Industry 

By the end of the year, vinyl could outsell CDs for the first time since 1986 (in the US, anyway).

September 8, 2019September 9, 2019 Alan Cross 1 Comment CDs, Compact Discs, Vinyl

The sales of compact discs have been in a death spiral for almost twenty years and no amount of pulling

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Music Industry 

It’s possible that vinyl will outsell CDs in the US as early as this year

March 2, 2019March 2, 2019 Alan Cross 1 Comment CDs, Compact Discs

Even though I wrote the above headline, I still can’t quite believe it. But according to the Recording Industry Association

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Gadgets 

How long will you continue to buy things like CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays?

February 24, 2019February 24, 2019 Alan Cross 7 Comments Blu-Ray, Compact Discs, DVDs

Item 1: Earlier this month, Samsung announced it was going to stop investing in new Blu-ray technology. While the company

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Music Industry 

CD sales continue their death spiral in 2018. It’s not looking good and getting worse.

September 21, 2018September 21, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments CDs, Compact Discs, Music sales

Rewind to 1999. Vinyl is all but dead. Predictions are that this might be the last year to buy a

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Music News 

CD sales continue to tank this summer

July 24, 2018July 23, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments CDs, Compact Discs, Soundscan

It’s fascinating to watch how quickly sales of physical music are cratering in the age of streaming. Looking at the

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Music News 

Random music news for Friday, July 20, 2018

July 20, 2018July 19, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Burning Man, Compact Discs, David Bowie, EMS Synthi 100, Germany, Netflix, Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Gabriel, Smart Speakers, Spotify, Vudu, Walmart

Today is the 50th anniversary of the start of the first-ever Special Olympics. It was held in Mexico City. As

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How much does streaming dominate the music industry now? Take a look at this.

July 13, 2018July 12, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments CDs, Compact Discs, Streaming, US

Most record labels would just love it if CDs were to disappear tomorrow. No more manufacturing, transporting, warehousing and distributing.

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Music Industry 

Another blow to the future of the compact disc came over the weekend

July 2, 2018October 7, 2020 Alan Cross 2 Comments Best Buy, CDs, Compact Discs

In the days before streaming took off, big box retailers like Walmart, Target and Best Buy were hugely important for

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