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Originally Posted by Pookie
"The first Compact Discs pressed were The Visitors by ABBA and a recording of the Eine Alpensinfonie by Richard Strauss conducted by Herbert von Karajan. They rolled off the assembly line on August 17, 1982, reaching the market in late 1982 in Asia, and early the following year in the United States and other markets."
Which is what sonicl said, but worded differently.
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You're right. Brothers In Arms is the first album to sell 1 million copies on cd, and Dire Straits the first band to use its longer time format so that Mark Knobfler could stretch the solos for the masses. Apologies.