The first million selling CD was The Joshua Tree by U2 -> NO! It was Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits:"Brothers in Arms was the first album to sell one million copies in the CD format"
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Bruce Springsteen�s �Born in the USA�. Pressed in September 1984
they just released a CD
Just put it in like a sega CD game.
Born In the USA was the first CD ever released in the US. Go Springstein!
The first mainstream commercially-available digital music device, the Sony CDP-101 CD player, was released on October 1, 1982.
1985- it was an album by Dire Straits. --- No, infact Billy Joel's album 52nd Street was the first album to be released on CD in 1982. Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits was the first CD to sell a million copies. I thought Sony Music Entertainment was founded in 1929?
now that's what i call music 11
The first commercial music CD arrived to usa and UK in 1983.
According to Greg Milner's "Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music" the first commercial music CD was Billy Joel's "52nd Street".
Music of sun released 2005
The first 'Now That's What I Call Music' album was released in 1983. However this predates CD's and was released on vinyl and audio cassette at this time. 'Now That's What I Call Music 1' was re-released in CD format in 2009.
Get Shazam on your phone - hold up the phone to your speakers. You'll have the title of most recorded music in seconds. But it has to have been commercially recorded and released, and still available in digital format (on CD or iTunes etc_.
A CD compresses music, With some music this compression ruins the sound. If music is released only on LP it would be due to this.
The CD-ROM was first released for computers in 1985. The first CD-RW was released in 1990.
U2 did not have an album that was the first to be released on CD. The first album in the World to be released on CD was Billy Joel's 52 Bridge Street.