Flashback to 1992/Greatest Hits and Compact Discs in December issue of Record Collector
This year might be the 40th anniversary of the launch of the compact disc, but it took ten years for the new format to change rock history. By 1992 Greatest Hits CDs dominated the charts, with sales of the new medium expanding exponentially, displacing both vinyl and cassette tapes as the only relevant musical format. This not only paved the way for the digital culture of the Noughties but also liberated albums from the restrictions of vinyl and refreshed the way audiences engaged with the history of popular music. Ironically, the 21st Century has seen a resurgence in vinyl, and it is now the compact disc that seems anachronistic. Here we take a look back at 1992, a year in which the CD was king and the music culture anticipated the new Millennium with both sentimentalism and trepidation...
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