Reports of the impending demise of the compact disk have been frequent over the past several years (this article in Business Insider is the source for the chart), especially since early 2018 when retailer Best Buy announced it would drop CDs from its offerings. In fact, sales of CDs peaked right about the time I wrote my first book on the history of sound recording. My editor asked me to add a section on the future of recording media, not realizing that historians are terrible at predicting the future, although I tried my best.