Cassettes

1. Cassettes: Home: My Portfolio canvas.instructure.com/eportfolios/1608434/Home/Cassettes Cassettes When 'In my Heart' by Al Martino became the UK's first ever number one simple on 14th Nov the Singles Graph was technically born. Back in the fifties and sixties, once you acquired music it was in the form of an individual or perhaps a 12 inch report (long player). Well before the lightweight disk (CD) and the cassette tape arrived to existence, plastic was king. What built plastic documents therefore interesting in the 1950s was that for the very first time, the English community had anything of their particular in their possession that they could actually play by themselves report players. Plastic also became generally for sale in report stores up and down the country. Coffee bars and bars were the perfect area for teenagers to generally meet up and listen to their favourite documents which they could pick from the jukeboxes located in them. Compact Cds and Cassette Tapes Cassettes While the century advanced, the manner in which music was available changed in medium. From 1980 cassette videos, and from lightweight cds (CDs) began to stage out the popular plastic record. Cassettes and CDs were a much more lightweight way of playing music. The innovation of the cassette person (the Walkman) and the CD person caused it to be possible never to only listen to music in the home or in a cafe, but in addition with the aid of headphones though on the road: a student can today listen to music while at school; a businessman or businesswoman can listen to music though on the road strolling or capturing the prepare to work. The lightweight disk was also designed to overcome the life of a plastic report because it was read by way of a laser thus their quality could not be worn out as time passes by a hook unlike a plastic record. It absolutely was also meant to be more difficult to break. Cassette participants and later CD participants also became popular in vehicles. The MiniDisc was introduced in to restore the cassette but met with only confined success. By the middle of the 1980s, music had thus become a great deal more available to the bulk market. History or music stores were however an addition of the large street. Equally established sequence shops and independent stores flourished in the same community or city centre. The Download The twenty-first century has acquired about still another way of playing music. Music or electronic downloads allow an individual to hear music through units such as MP3 participants and iPods without having to buy a physical simple or album. Alternatively a report of music is basically downloaded to a PC therefore rendering it possible to get access to music without having to have possession of their bodily structure such as the CD. That in itself did initially cause significant issues, and to a particular extent however does, through illegal downloads (accessing documents without spending money on them). Portable units such as the iPod are actually smaller consequently of this media. With downloads being integrated in to the official singles chart since April 2005, 1/2

2. and since April 2006 with downloads able to count towards the chart weekly ahead of the bodily release, these were technically accepted as a chartable structure thus negating the requirement for the standalone acquire chart. 2/2