Research into digipack history- Tom Ayling

A digipack is somthing wich normally consists of a gatefold (bookstyle) paper/cardboard presentation as outerbinding and with one or more plastic trays which are cable of holding CDs or DVDs.

The first digipack that I can find is U2s Under a Blood Red Sky in 1986 to 1987.

However, due to the recent surge in online downloading legal and illegal there has been a decline in the amount of digipacks that have been brought due to the fact that this generation would rather buy a single rather than a whole album.