Random music news for Friday, July 20, 2018
Today is the 50th anniversary of the start of the first-ever Special Olympics. It was held in Mexico City. As for music news on July 20, 2018… After 42 years, Seymour Stein (head
Read MoreCompact Discs
How much does streaming dominate the music industry now? Take a look at this.
Most record labels would just love it if CDs were to disappear tomorrow. No more manufacturing, transporting, warehousing and distributing. They’ve all seen the light: streaming is the way to go–and it’s the
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Another blow to the future of the compact disc came over the weekend
In the days before streaming took off, big box retailers like Walmart, Target and Best Buy were hugely important for the number of compact discs they sold for the record industry. Getting a
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Here’s the one thing I miss most about CDs
The first time I ran into a hidden track on a CD was with an early edition of Nirvana’s Nevermind. I was in the car and after the last strains of “Something in
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A well-constructed defense of the compact disc
I have a room off my office I call the CD Vault. It’s crammed with maybe 10,000 compact discs dating back to sometime around 1986. While I almost never listen to any of
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Is the CD dead? Let’s take a look.
If you go back to today’s Random Music News, you’ll see that CD sales have taken another huge dump, dropping more than 30% from this point next year. So here’s the question: Is
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If you’re a music collector, read this and be horrified at what the CBC is doing
Over the decades, the CBC has become one of the biggest repositories of recorded music in the known world. Its archives are filled with all manner of records, CDs and tapes going back
Read MoreRandom Music News for Thursday, February 22, 2018
If Dolly the Cloned Sheep were still alive, she’d be 21 today. In music news for February 22, 2018… The Arkells tweeted once about the Olympics. Now they’re on their way to Seoul
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For the second time in history, music sales have collapsed by 90%
From the end of the Great War until the Crash of ’29, record sales increased year after year after year. But when the Depression hit, sales of recorded music collapsed by a staggering
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Yet another eulogy for the compact disc (but there’s some good history here)
So far this year, Canadian compact disc sales are down 38% vs. this time last year. At best, 9 million units will be sold by end of 2018. The era of the CD
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Before we declare the CD dead, let’s consider a few things
There’s been a lot of talk about how the CD is dead, killed by the relentless uptick in streaming. Yes, the CD is in decline, but it’s not quite dead yet. At first
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