› Cassette Tape will not be found in the Oxford English Dictionary any more.
The editors of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary decided to remove the term “cassette tape” from its pages this summer to help make room for 400 new words including “cyberbullying” and “retweet.”
The peak of cassette sales came in 1990, when more than 442 million cassettes were shipped. But then began the cassette’s decline and the rise of the CD, which peaked in 2000 before giving way to the digital platform.
As of mid-August, music-related cassette album sales are up 46% from last year at 22,000 units sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Last year, they said, cassette album sales were at about 15,000.
“Considering not a massive amount of new releases are being pumped out there, that’s substantial,” said Chris Muratore, vice president for merchant services and emerging growth for Nielsen Entertainment. But, he added, the numbers are still, in the big picture, “minuscule.”
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