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Aug 16, 2015 · 17th August 1982: The first commercial CD is produced in Germany. Although it was a number of months before the disc was actually available to purchase, the advent of the CD marked a seismic...
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The first ‘pop’ music compact disc to be produced was the The Visitors – the last album recorded by the Swedish musical super-group ABBA. Having initially created separate prototype digital ...
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Mar 12, 2019 · The CD was invented in 1979. At a time before before online music existed, it became the most sophisticated way to store and play music. On the 25th anniversary of its first public release in...
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Sep 18, 2022 · In April 1981, when star conductor Herbert von Karajan launched the marketing of the "Compact Disc" together with representatives of the technology companies Philips and Sony, no one could have...
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Mar 9, 2019 · The CD was invented in 1979. At a time before before online music existed, it became the most sophisticated way to store and play music. On the 25th anniversary of its first public release in...
First released in Japan in October 1982, the CD was the second optical disc technology to be invented, after the much larger LaserDisc (LD). By 2007, 200 billion CDs (including audio CDs, CD-ROMs and CD-Rs) had been sold worldwide.
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Aug 17, 2024 · August 17, 1982. “The Visitors” by ABBA becomes the world’s first commercial music compact disc (CD) manufactured, pressed in Langenhagen, Germany by Polygram Records, a subsidiary of Royal Phillips Electronics.
