Big, clunky, expensive, and very little to listen to… being a musical early adopter can’t have been much fun when the first compact disc (CD) players first hit the market in October 1982:
The CDP-101 did not come cheap nor did it come svelte. Early adopters had to part ways with the equivalent of $2,200 in [...]
Buy a CD player, be an early adopter, too bad there’s no CDs
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A breakdown of music sales by a variety of formats, including CD, record, single, and cassette, in the US from 1973 to 2008.
CDs are clearly the most popular format, probably accounting for more sales in the period than all other formats combined.
