As soon as commercial recordings on cassette began to proliferate ... the tape-based Walkman was extremely popular during the 1980s. It evolved into a portable CD player by the end of the decade.

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 ...

Vinyl record albums and 8-track cassettes from the 1940s to the early 1980s have become hot collectible items. Starting a business that buys albums and resells them for a profit is a fantastic ...

By then many homes had VCRs to play tapes on. People had gotten ... If we look at the top ten music video albums of the 1980s, as compiled by bestsellingalbums.org, we can see some trends ...