In January of 2018, Best Buy announced that they will stop selling CDs, and Target may be following suit. With the rise of smart phones that can hold thousands of songs, CDs have gone the way of audio cassettes and 8-tracks and have become obsolete.

Are CDs obsolete 2020?

But the downturn from the first half of 2019 to the first half of 2020 was 48%; CD sales were cut almost in half over the last year. ... CDs are now worth less to the industry than every category of music distribution other than tiny ones like ringtones and music video downloads.

Are CDs obsolete 2021?

In this age of streaming and vinyl resurgence, the popularity of CDs has plummetted. It's 2021 and streaming makes up about 85 percent of how all music is consumed. ... CDs, on the other hand, have been on the decline.