WORLD'S FIRST MUSIC CD

52nd Street is Billy Joel’s sixth studio album and was released in 1978. This was Joel’s first album to reach #1 on the Billboard album chart, producing a number of hit singles, including “Big Shot”, “My Life”, “Honesty” and “Until The Night”. 52nd Street also represents another milestone in music history, becoming the first album to be released on CD by Sony, released in Japan in October 1982, along with 15 other CDs in that first batch.

Billy Joel 52nd Street (CBS/Sony, catalog number 35DP 1). The disc was pressed by CBS/Sony. It has “MANUFACTURED BY CBS/SONY RECORDS INC.” stamped on the plastic ring, and the matrix code is “35DP-1-2 1B4″. This represents the first title in the initial CBS/Sony pop/rock/jazz CD series.  This disc is very popular with collectors by virtue of the historically significant catalog number.

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