But though the format has been in steady decline throughout the streaming era, retail, manufacturing and management sources say the digital discs have gained in popularity as keepsakes. CD sales accounted for $13.2 billion in 2000, their peak year, according to the RIAA. “It definitely felt like CDs were a merch item, not just a means to listen to music.”Ī relic of the record industry’s pre-Napster boom period thanks to megastars like *NSYNC, Britney Spears and Eminem, U.S.
“Kids would look at the display and pick every single one of our records on CD,” says Michele Abreim, the band’s manager. In the process, they helped boost sales for an ostensibly dying product: compact discs. On March 4, hundreds of metalheads stormed into Pierce the Veil’s pop-up store in Glendale, Calif., scooping up T-shirts, hoodies and other merchandise.
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