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What was the first year that CDs outsold cassette tapes?

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It appears that sometime in the early 1990's (1991 to be exact), the compact disc overtook cassette tapes for music sales, in the USA. Fortune has some data compiled from RIAA and other sources over the years found here. read more

While the 1980s were a great decade for cassette tapes, they were also the decade that saw the beginning of digital audio when the compact audio disc (CD) was launched in 1982. And just as the cassette tape was not an immediate hit, neither was the CD. read more

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History of Compact Cassette:
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History's Dumpster: The History of Cassettes
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