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End of era: Columbia House is shutting down after 71 years
Дата публикации: 19-08-2026 11:11:17
Columbia House, the mail-order music club that lured millions with its “12 CDs for a penny” pitch, is shutting down after 71 years.
A message on its website’s description says after Sept. 15 “The Columbia House will no longer be accepting new orders.”
Columbia House record club was founded in 1955 by Columbia Records, its namesake music label as way to sell albums directly to customers. Over the next four decades, the company was forced to pivot from vinyls to 8-tracks to cassette tapes and finally CDs as technology evolved.
Their ads appeared in nearly every magazine and newspaper, with deals offering eight or 12 albums for a mere penny or for the price of one LP. But those deals had a catch: it enrolled customers into the club and required members to purchase a certain number of albums at full price over a designated time period. It also sent customers unsolicited releases that they had to return promptly to avoid charges and made canceling the subscription challenging.
At its peak in the mid-1990s, Columbia House raked in $1.4 billion in profits annually, according to CNBC. Then came Napster, iTunes and free music streaming services like Spotify. The advent of digital media led to years of declining sales. It eventually closed the music club in 2010 to focus on selling DVDs and Blu-Rays. In 2015, Columbia House’s parent company, Filmed Entertainment, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and sought to sell its DVDs club business.
Four months later, the company’s new owner announced plans to relaunch Columbia House as a vinyl service and capitalize on the renewed interest in records, telling the Wall Street Journal at the time it “will return in 2016.” The plan never materialized.
In recent years, Columbia House has survived as a mail order DVD business, selling a limited catalog of mostly dated movie titles.
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A message on its website's description says after Sept. 15 "The Columbia House will no longer be accepting new orders."
File photo - At its peak in the mid-1990s, Columbia House raked in $1.4 billion in profits annually.
Columbia House, the mail-order music club that lured millions with its "12 CDs for a penny" pitch, is shutting down after 71 years.
A message on its website's description says after Sept. 15 "The Columbia House will no longer be accepting new orders."
Columbia House record club was founded in 1955 by Columbia Records, its namesake music label as way to sell albums directly to customers. Over the next four decades, the company was forced to pivot from vinyls to 8-tracks to cassette tapes and finally CDs as technology evolved.
Their ads appeared in nearly every magazine and newspaper, with deals offering eight or 12 albums for a mere penny or for the price of one LP. But those deals had a catch: it enrolled customers into the club and required members to purchase a certain number of albums at full price over a designated time period. It also sent customers unsolicited releases that they had to return promptly to avoid charges and made canceling the subscription challenging.
At its peak in the mid-1990s, Columbia House raked in $1.4 billion in profits annually, according to CNBC. Then came Napster, iTunes and free music streaming services like Spotify. The advent of digital media led to years of declining sales. It eventually closed the music club in 2010 to focus on selling DVDs and Blu-Rays. In 2015, Columbia House's parent company, Filmed Entertainment, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and sought to sell its DVDs club business.
Four months later, the company's new owner announced plans to relaunch Columbia House as a vinyl service and capitalize on the renewed interest in records, telling the Wall Street Journal at the time it "will return in 2016." The plan never materialized.
In recent years, Columbia House has survived as a mail order DVD business, selling a limited catalog of mostly dated movie titles.
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