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Columbia House Closes After 71 Years | Music News
Columbia House, the mail-order music giant that brought albums straight to your door for seven decades, is shutting down—officially stopping new orders after September 15. Born in 1955 as a revolutionary way for folks without record stores to get music, it grew into a behemoth with 16 million members and dominated CD sales in the 90s. Remember those “ten CDs for a penny” deals? That was peak Columbia House. But digital disruption hit hard—Napster, a failed 1999 merger, and shifting consumer habits eroded its power. After bankruptcy in 2015 and a pivot to DVDs and Blu-rays, the company’s…
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