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Why Are CD Sales Suddenly Booming For The 1st Time In 17 Years? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. For the past seventeen years,
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Speaker 1: CD sales have steadily declined, with even a lot of
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Speaker 1: die hard music fans no longer owning even a single
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Speaker 1: compact disc as streaming has taken over and vinyl records
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Speaker 1: have returned to popularity. But for the first time since
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Speaker 1: two thousand six, CD sales have gone up by quite
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Speaker 1: a bit. In one they rose six point three percent
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Speaker 1: from the prior year, the first spike since oh four,
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Speaker 1: and the primary reason is Superstar Power adele Bts, Taylor Swift,
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Speaker 1: and Olivia Rodrigo all out to include their releases on
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Speaker 1: CD last year, with the deleting the pack moving over
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Speaker 1: nine hundred thousand CDs of thirty. It seems nostalgia might
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Speaker 1: also be playing a role along with a cool factor.
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Speaker 1: Some gen Z music fans actually think they're retro, so
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Speaker 1: the CD spike continue this year will find out that's
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Speaker 1: direct from Hollywood.