CD albums sold.

2000: 943 million
2018: 52 million

CD albums sold to me

2000: 5
2001: 4
2002: 26
2003: 23
2004: 22
2005: 12
2006: 3
2007: 7
2008: 5
2009: 10
2010: 2
2011: 1
2012: 0
2013: 0
2014: 0
2015: 0
2016: 0
2017: 6
2018: 5

I buy more CDs per year than I did in the 90s when I was buying actual chart albums.

Of course, that's because these days the prices I pay range between 50p and £1 for second hand CDs rather than £13.99 for new ones.

I've just ordered a CD.

I know you're all gaggin' to know.


https://store.universalmusic.com/carlyraejepsen/

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ABBA, Adele and Ed Sheeran cause 15 per cent increase in CD sales

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According to a new report by Music Week, Q4 sales of CDs has seen a year-on-year increase in the UK of almost 15 per cent.

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The CD revival comes as the format is set for its 40th anniversary for music releases in 2022.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/abba-adele-and-ed-sheeran-cause-15-per-cent-increase-in-cd-sales-3113086

Elvis Costello says that CD is a medium that has seen its day


https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/elvis-costello-says-that-cd-is-a-medium-that-has-seen-its-day/



The comments.

I think Elvis Costello will get cancelled before the CD does - probably by himself.

Channel 33 RPM going traitor on the VC.*







*Vinyl community, it's a thing on Youtube, apparently.

Yay.

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Researchers have developed a Very Big DiscTM that can store up to 200 terabytes of data and may represent a return to optical media for long term storage

Good news for those of you that have kept that big ol' stack of burned DVD and CD backups, taking up space in your attic: They may well be making a comeback. A team of researchers also appear to have also had a hard time letting the concept of spinning disc storage go, as they've developed an optical disc with a massive capacity of well over a petabit of data.

A team of scientists and researchers at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology have managed to exponentially increase the capacity of an optical disc by making use of a 3D planar recording architecture (via Techspot). Essentially, the process involves stacking hundreds of data-recording layers a mere one micrometer apart, all while keeping the overall thickness of the disc the same as a traditional DVD or Blu-ray.

This much denser physical storage format makes use of 100 layers, which is said to result in a maximum data capacity of 1.6 petabits, or roughly 200 terabytes of storage. That's a gigantic leap over even the most advanced quad-layer Blu-ray disks, that currently top out at around 128 GB of data.

https://www.pcgamer.com/researchers-have-developed-a-very-big-disctm-that-can-store-up-to-200-terabytes-of-data-and-may-represent-a-return-to-optical-media-for-long-term-storage/