Collectors' Choice Music (CCM) is an
Itasca, Illinois
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, company originally primarily in two businesses, but since 2010 only in the second.
CCM was best known for reissuing albums originally recorded in
LP record
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form as
compact disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then rele ...
s.
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/ref> , its catalog had reached over 600 titles
/ref> and by 2009 it had issued around 60 new titles a year.[About CCM]
Its own releases were also sold through all other online dealers that sell CDs. By the end of 2010, however, Collectors' Choice had stopped releasing recordings.[
CCM's second business line is the sale of ]CDs
The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in Octo ...
(and originally cassettes), both those it has produced and others falling under their emphasis on rare and exotic titles. The company originated in 1993 with a print catalog,[ which is still maintained as of 2019,][ although it now encourages people to order online.][ Both the print and online store offered their own and other rereleases and rare titles, with over 250,000 titles][ available. By 2019, the rare titles and rereleases by others dominated, and some of CCM's pre-2011 rereleases were out of print.][
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American record labels
Jazz record labels
Record labels established in 1993
Reissue record labels
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