39 Million of 40 million seller album Rumours now at dumps around the world

With digital media taking over, hit albums of the 70s and 80s and 90s are now collecting at the dump. Some remain as CDs at homes, but as baby boomers die, they too will go to the dump.

Taking an example, investigators found very few copies of Rumours in Des Moines, Iowa, a test city that bought over 10 000 copies as LP and CD. In used vinyl stores, 3 copies were found. At a Saturday flea market and garage sale round up, ten CDs were located. As we said, nearly 90% of the 10 000 are the dump.

Many owners of CDs have given up the medium as they discover that Best Buy has maybe one CD player model that plugs in to the old "strereo". Clock radios with CD player remain more popular.

The CDs are simply collecting dust. Few customers ever try to play the CDs in their DVD player or home theater. Those are left for playing concert videos and 5.1 surround sound DVDs, which were never a major market.