Bay Area Gen Z revives physical music formats over streaming platforms

Last December, 17-year-old Navya Chitlur had only one thing on her Christmas list: a portable CD player. She’d been collecting CDs from her favorite artists for the last few months — but now she wanted to go all in and actually listen to them. 

“It feels like a whole different experience listening to CDs,” said Chitlur, a senior at Mission San Jose High School in Fremont.