Ben Gilbert: belief

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…In just a few short years by 1986, CDs become the dominant recording format by sales passing records. I'm actually looking right now at the RIAA data on this that I conveniently had from the Taylor Swift episode. If you look at US recorded music sales by format, the CD grew really fast. I think there might have been a handful of years there in the mid- to late-80s where cassettes were bigger than records but CDs hadn't caught up yet. But the cassette wave was reasonably short-lived as the dominant platform between records and CDs. Interesting. Of course, Sony also does pretty well in the cassette industry with what you're referring to, the Walkman. This is another thing I didn't realize. The Walkman came out pretty concurrently with the rise of CDs, but as you were saying, it's not like you could take a big honk in-home CD player on the road.…

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