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Best Buy has told music suppliers that it will pull all CDs from its stores this summer, 

 This move should come as no big surprise: Between unlimited streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify, and the 

 CDs just don't have the sway that they used to. 
As NPR's Andrew Flanagan 


In 2015, music streaming resulted in the first increase in the music industry's global revenues since 1999, by $500 million. In 2016, streaming services became the primary way Americans listened to music, 

according to data from the Nielsen marketing research company.

, the Ford Motor Co. rolled out its first car in 25 years without a CD player. 


"Streaming is the fastest-growing source of music and video content and particularly with younger consumers, who we've found time and time again prefer streaming and subscription services over traditional forms like CDs," Ford marketing manager Michael O'Brien told Glinton. 



O'Brien isn't wrong. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry 

estimates that 112 million people worldwide

 now pay for access to streaming services and that streaming services contributed toward a 20.5 percent decline in downloads and a 7.6 percent decline in physical revenue in 2017.  
Best Buy generates nearly $40 billion annually and has more than 1,500 stores throughout North America. Last year, the company eliminated nearly 400 jobs to "meet the significant and evolving tech support needs of our customers," as it said in a letter to the state of Minnesota, 

 The company told NPR that it has no comment on the 

A previous version of this story misspelled the name of the the Nielsen marketing research company as Neilson.

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