The Oxford Dictionary of the English language produced the word Cassette Player from its version in 2011, and Sony stopped manufacturing its famous portable walkman cassette player in 2010 ... but it seems that the nostalgia for the past "Nostalega", which pushed music listeners to Rediscovering this method may make them feel quick to make this decision.
While newspapers and websites occasionally viewed us with reports of the death of "cassette tapes" clinically, to be replaced by the CD, the surprise came in a recent report by the "British Phoneme Industry" explaining that the cassette came out in the era of the free spread of music over the Internet from limbo to life again.
The report, published in January this year, by the British newspaper, The Guardian, indicates that 50 thousand albums were sold in old strips in 2018, an increase of 125.5% over 2017.
Although this figure is small when compared to times when sales exceeded millions, as happened for example in Egypt with the popular singer Ali Hamida, who sold 8 million copies of the "Lolaki" album during the eighties of the last century, but it reveals that this industry did not die, and that nostalgia In the past it may push it in the future towards more expansion.
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