Collectors' Choice Music (CCM) is an
Itasca, Illinois
Itasca () is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 Census, the population was 9,543. Located approximately 25 miles northwest of downtown Chicago, Itasca is close to O'Hare International Airport, major expressways and ...
-based record label and retailer of music on CD. Originally the company was primarily in two businesses, but since 2010 only in the second.
CCM was best known for reissuing albums originally released 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 co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. It employs the Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA) standard and was capable of hol ...
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
CDS, CDs, Cds, etc. may refer to:
Finance
* Canadian Depository for Securities, Canadian post-trade financial services company
* Certificate of deposit (CDs)
* Counterfeit Deterrence System, developed by the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence ...
(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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References
Record labels based in Illinois
American jazz record labels
Record labels established in 1993
Reissue record labels
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