Normal Motors has discontinued the CD gamers from all of its passenger vehicles for the 2022 mannequin yr, placing one other nail to the coffin of the once-dominant music format. Again within the ’00s, there was virtually no automobile supplied and not using a CD participant, however twenty years later music streaming companies are the brand new king, making CD slots a uncommon sight.

As reported by GM Authority, the final GM passenger automobiles with a CD participant have been the mechanically associated 2021 Chevy Categorical and 2021 GMC Savana vans. A yr earlier, the CD possibility was discontinued from the 2020 Chevy Tahoe / Suburban, the 2020 GMC Yukon / Yukon XL, and the 2020 Cadillac Escalade.

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If you’re very persistent, the one option to play your CD assortment in a brand new GM product in North America is to purchase a Chevy Silverado Medium Duty truck or a Chevy Low Cab Forward truck – each listed as industrial automobiles. In different phrases, building employees and different professionals can nonetheless benefit from the pure high quality of WAV information popping out of a Compact Disc however solely of their work vans.

Within the US market, music CDs first appeared in 1984 however their peak yr was 2000 with gross sales of $13.2 billion accounting for 92.3% of the full income of recorded music (stats by RIAA). Since then, gross sales have been steadily declining, reaching as little as $483.3 million (4%) in 2020, as a result of rising reputation of music streaming companies. One thing comparable occurred just a few a long time in the past with the rise and fall of cassette gamers, regardless that they by no means reached the recognition standing of CDs at their peak.

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It’s true that carrying round a pack of CDs and having to alter them each from time to time isn’t essentially the most sensible factor on earth, regardless that cowl artwork gained’t ever look pretty much as good in digital type. However, having the ability to entry tens of hundreds of thousands of songs out of your smartphone or infotainment touchscreen sounds too good to disregard, even for the extra conventional music lovers. How do you are feeling about this modification?