Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" is the first commercial popular music compact disc (CD) pressed in the United States. Bruce's was the first U.S. CD to roll off the manufacturing line at the Digital Audio Disc Corporation in 1984.

The first CD ever to hit the consumer market, however was Billy Joel's "52nd Street" released in October 1982 to the consumer market in Japan.

The band ABBA's album, "The Visitors", beat both Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel to have the first commercial popular music CD in the world. The album CD was manufactured in Germany in 1982.

The first artist to sell a million copies on CD was Dire Straits, with their 1985 album "Brothers in Arms". The first major artist to have his entire catalogue converted to CD was David Bowie, whose 15 studio albums were made available by RCA Records in February 1985, along with four greatest hits albums. On February 26, 1987, the first four United Kingdom albums by The Beatles were released in mono on compact disc. In 1988, 400 million CDs were manufactured by 50 pressing plants around the world

The superior digital sound quality scratch-free set the stage for the extinction of vinyl records and cassettes. More than 670 billion CDs have been sold around the world.

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