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Article: DVDINSIDER: Audio CD Celebrates 20th Birthday.(Brief Article)
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- DVD News
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- June 17, 2002
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The year 1982 marks the year that the audio CD was born. It was on August 17th of that year that PolyGram produced the world's first mass-produced audio CD containing classical music: Claudio Arrau's rendition on the piano of various waltzes by Frederic Chopin.
The first pop music CD by the same producer was ABBA's album The Visitors. Starting with 376,000 "silver discs" in the first year, Universal Music, which is the successor to PolyGram, has now produced more than 1.8 billion CDs.
Bayer developed the technology for compact discs ...