Yet cassette tapes are having a moment. According to Luminate, an entertainment industry data collector, U.S. tape sales increased by more than 440 percent between 2015 and 2022.

Vinyl is experiencing a huge resurgence — we all know this. But a rising tide lifts all ships and it has actually spawned renewed interest in other old-school audio formats as well, including CDs and, ...

In the ’70s, Dead show taping gained steam thanks in part to high-end cassette recorders like the Nakamichi 550. Soon, traders formed clubs to build their collections of both audience and ...

In Saudi Arabia, it is 70%. However, he added that this is because the penetration of CD players "is not 100% in those markets." With the US's largest magnetic tape factory ceasing production earlier ...

Debuting as the Philips Compact Cassette in 1963, the humble tape became the most popular format for both the '70s and the '80s. Predictions differ, but the quantity of cassettes still in the ...

Maxell was a brand synonymous with audio and cassette tapes thanks to an iconic ad. With the popularity of cassette tapes on ...

Cassette tapes were a major way of listening to (and recording) music througout the 1980s and 1990s and were in every hi-fi stereo, boom box, and passenger vehicle of the era. Their decline was lar… ...

When home computers first appeared, disk drives were an expensive rarity. Consumers weren’t likely to be interested in punch cards or paper tape, but most people did have consumer-grade audio… ...

Old cassette tapes are stacked on shelves at Mohammad Ashraf Matoo’s cassette tape player repair shop in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) ...

Cassette tapes make unexpected comeback in era of music streaming. ... They became popular in the '70s and '80s, an alternative to vinyl. Compact discs had overtaken both formats by the early 1990s.