https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:50:37 +0000 Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:17:00 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=8970 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8970&PID=50034&title=vinyl-vs-cd#50034 Author: PopArchivist
Subject: 8970
Posted: 10 September 2018 at 10:17am

When I was growing up my dad was very into vinyl and 45's. When I was reading your post, i was reminded that he often played many albums and artists that today many would not even hunt down on CD. Some of those included popular Dixie Land artists and New Orleans Jazz, Sha Na Na type albums with the hits of the 60's and early 70's on them and too many to mention specialty albums, comps and covers.

Your question is just too broad to really answer in any context as like Aaron said there are just a lot of stuff that never even got a chart look but are on CD somewhere and stuff that charted or got airplay that is nowhere on CD at all.

Up until 2009 even the Beatles in mono were not on CD. As much as we want to think the CD is going to keep chugging along the digital age is upon us. Artists don't even release their singles as CD's anymore and some of the albums of the last few years I have downloaded in lossless digitally because that is the only way some artists choose to put their releases out. Eminem came out with Kamikazee and I downloaded it ASAP in lossless. Same with Drake's Scorpion.

Long live Adele, at least she can still sell CD'S!!



Edited by PopArchivist]]> Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:17:00 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8970&PID=50034&title=vinyl-vs-cd#50034 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8970&PID=50029&title=vinyl-vs-cd#50029 Author: aaronk
Subject: 8970
Posted: 09 September 2018 at 1:24pm

Yeah, I'd say that's impossible to answer. For starters, do you even have a list of ALL major label releases from the 1970s?

I'm sure there are loads of 45s and LPs that, even on major labels, were complete stiffs and didn't chart anywhere. About a month ago, I sold a huge box of promo 45s from the '80s that were all pretty much chart flops on major labels. Most of the songs I had never heard of. None were rare. I looked a bunch of them up, and multiple copies were available for sale for only a buck or two.]]> Sun, 09 Sep 2018 13:24:07 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8970&PID=50029&title=vinyl-vs-cd#50029 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8970&PID=50028&title=vinyl-vs-cd#50028 Author: EdisonLite
Subject: 8970
Posted: 09 September 2018 at 1:05pm

I know this is an impossible question to answer. But I'll ask for opinions anyway. As I was listening to a '70s song today (only available on vinyl, and will probably always be the case), I wondered what % of 1970s songs (all singles & album cuts released in the '70s in the US) have been made available on CD/digital (including import CDs). Let's limit this to major labels, and labels with major label distribution, so as not to include every obscurity in the world: )

I'd guess 10%. Maybe 20%. (But I kind of hope I'm way off.)

For those who buy lots of '70s music on CD, and are quite aware of what they could get and what wasn't released on CD, what would you guess?

I guess I'll also ask the same question for the '80s - although by 1987-ish (or even 1986), almost every album was released on CD, so obviously the figure for this decade is substantially higher.

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