#MusicHistoryMonday
Автор: Robert Greenberg
Загружено: 2024-07-02
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#MusicHistoryMonday: We mark the introduction on July 1, 1979 – 45 years ago today – of the Sony Walkman. The Walkman was the first entirely portable, high-fidelity (or at least fairly high-fidelity) audio cassette player, an absolutely revolutionary device that allowed a user to listen to entire albums anywhere, anytime. Introduced initially in Japan, the higher-ups at Sony expected to sell 5000 units a month for the first six months after its release. Instead, they sold 30,000 units in the first month alone and then – then – sales exploded. All told, Sony has sold over 400 million Walkmen (“Walkmans”?) in cassette, CD, mini-disc, and digital file VERSIONS, and Sony remained the market leader among portable music players until the introduction of Apple’s iPod on October 23, 2001.
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