For me, it was the release of Drake’s Views.

The CD version of Views was released in truncated form, for some reason Feel No Ways was the edited version even on explicit versions of the release, and it was an Apple Music exclusive for all streaming services

CDs are creeping back into the mainstream

When they stopped putting CD players in vehicles

Rodeo, IYRTYTL

when i realized it wasn't 2008 anymore and moved on

when computers no longer had cd drives

it has to be when beyonce dropped self titled right? completely changed the game

What year? I first saw CD-less cars in 2016

when my car with an 8 track cd holder s*** the bed in 2017, after that ive only used aux

Never bought a cd In my life tbh

When I didn’t buy Graduation.

my ford focus 2017 has a cd player,

my mom's car is a couple years newer and she doesn't have one so i guess they recently started phasing it out relatively

this honestly is super annoying to this day lol

When FYE went out of business

i love cds tho ill keep buying them

Life of pablo releasing w no CDs at all

lowkey didn't even realize this until now

i remember keeping all my pc games in my giant cd holder and having to wait 10 minutes for my computer to boot up and load it

2016/2017 was the big move away from it

Can't play my classic CD album in cars no more

Limewire

After Napster came out though that was the true beginning but the record companies bought a little time

I've been playing cassettes lately and the Side A / Side B is so clutch. Plus the limited runtime. No bloat on these puppies.

Cassettes trash tbh

So is vinyl for the most part tbh and I’m a vinyl head

When they started closing more FYEs. Best Buy and Target no longer selling CDs.