It seems like the music industry that we knew is slowly fading away. According to Billboard, Best Buy will no longer carry physical CDs and Target just announced they will get rid of them in the near future. Beginning July 1st, 2018 Best Buy notified music suppliers that they will no longer have CDs in their store.
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It seems like carrying CDs is starting to become more costly now that everyone is buying their music online. The disruptive change of the internet really shaped the industry in a big way. Now every artist is putting their music on online streaming sites like Apple Music and Spotify. There have been many businesses that have closed down because of this change. It was really sad to see big companies that sell records to go out of business.
This change marks the end of an era. Now we might not be seeing CDs anywhere unless it was a from a small business, or F.Y.E, the CD store that also sells DVDs and t-shirts to keep their revenue up. To keep the records in the store they would have to make more money than the cost of having them there, and no one wants to buy them. It is becoming risky to have physical copies of records in the store, and everyone is backing down. But what about the meaning behind this music? When records are created they are meant to be listened to with their artwork being a vital part of the music. No one wants to own music anymore. Remember how special buying your first CD was? Now kids go on iTunes. It just isn’t the same experience. To see big businesses not carrying CDs anymore is the tipping point of what is to come. I will be extremely saddened if they go out of style because it holds so much weight in our hearts and to this industry.
