“On October 1, 1982, the first commercial compact disc, Billy Joel’s “52nd Street,” was released in Japan.”
Guess The Cars were early here? 
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It’s a classic mistake of people adding their re-edition with the date of the original edition.
You can remove the wrong release date.
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Yes - please submit a MusicBrainz edit with the correct release date for the CD release.
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I’ve wiped the date for you. I tried looking on Discogs for more info, no clues there. So just added the discogs link and wiped the bogus date.
Often people copy a copyright date, or just plain want to have any date in the box.
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We have 110 CD releases purportedly from 1979. Is it the case that these are all incorrect and the release date should be removed? If so, I will get to work 
Indexed query “format:CD AND date:1979”:
https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=format%3ACD+AND+date%3A1979&type=release&limit=100&method=advanced
I tried some nearby years and got similar results.
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You can find even more of them. 
- Release search with format:CD AND date:[0001-01-01 TO 1982-09-31] (2,234 results)
- Releases released too early (3,270 results)
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If you are on a scorched earth, delete the years mission - can I politely suggest to arm yourself with the Discogs Import tool. It would be really useful to import a “first LP release” for those Release Groups where that 1979 date was previously the earliest.
These misplaced date get even worse when you look at Digital Media!
A quick look at @agatzk’s list I can clearly see concert bootlegs on there. Another common when when people put the wrong date in the box.
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Actually, I believe the first CD was Bee Gee’s “Living Eyes”, which ironically took forever to come out on CD. Maybe that was just the first CD ever made, but not released.
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ABBA tried, but were beaten by Billy Joel. On the other hand, ABBA had the first true digital CD, most of the early CD’s where recorded in analog, and many even mixed in analog, but ABBA had the first DDD CD.
How do I know? I bought it. Frida’s “Somethings going on”. I had just bought a state of the art stereo set-up. B&W 801, Kenwood L07D, Electrocompaniet amp and preamp, Philips’ first CD player, Tandberg 2 track TD20A, Tandberg TCD 910 or 911 (I think) and some electrostatic ear phones. The drum solo on the CD literally sucked the air out of my ears, it was absolutely fantastic.
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