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How Spotify Saved the CD

By Tony van Veen

Wed Sep 9th, 2026 14:06:33

By Disc Makers' Author Tony van Veen

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

You may be asking yourself: Weren’t CDs supposed to be dead by now?

It’s true that for the last fifteen years, we’ve all been told the CD is dead. When I’d meet someone — on a plane, or at a party — and they asked me what I did for a living, and I said that I manufacture CDs, the response usually was: “people still buy CDs?”

That was the common perception. Except… apparently nobody told music fans. According to Luminate — the company that tracks music sales in the U.S. — CD sales were up 16% in the first half of 2026. That’s right, up...

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