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END OF AN ERA: Columbia House Is Shutting Down After 71 Years

For generations of music fans, Columbia House was almost as much a part of buying music as the record store itself. Founded in 1955 as the Columbia Record Club, the mail-order service delivered everything from vinyl records and 8-tracks to cassettes and CDs right to your mailbox. Its legendary offers—eventually including deals like “12 CDs for a penny”—helped make Columbia House a pop-culture institution. At its peak in 1996, the club reportedly had around 16 million members and generated roughly $1.4 billion in annual revenue.

Now that era is officially coming to an end. Columbia House has announced that it will stop accepting new orders after September 15, 2026, closing the book on a remarkable 71-year run. The company struggled as digital downloads and streaming replaced physical media, even filing for bankruptcy in 2015 before continuing as a much smaller seller of movies and other media. For anyone who remembers filling out those little order cards and waiting for a box of music to arrive in the mail, the end of Columbia House feels like another piece of our childhood disappearing.

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