The audio CD shines twice as bright, but burned half as long.

In 2000, record sales were dropping thanks to file sharing, and suddenly, used CDs were a much bigger problem for record ...

You're probably familiar with the vinyl resurgence. The trend, which has been happening for years now, sees a new generation becoming acquainted with vinyl records, as well as record players or ...

Vinyl albums outsold CDs last year for the first time since 1987, according to the Recording Industry Association of America's year-end report released Thursday. It marked the 16th consecutive year of ...

Most of us store our favorite music on a digital playlist, but March marks an anniversary for those of us who remember when music came on something physical. Forty years ago, in March 1983, Billy Joel ...

U.S. CD sales rose 16% in the first half of 2026, according to Luminate data reported by Consequence, substantially fa ...

Back in the 1980s, Peter Giles knew that the fledgling music format, the compact disc, came with some compromises. CDs were smaller than vinyl record albums. That meant the end of the 12-inch album ...

Streaming music platforms have been in the news quite a bit recently, and not for good reasons. A lot of people who use streaming music services (which includes virtually all of us) are also quite ...

Khachaturian: Piano Concerto, Concerto-Rhapsody, Masquerade Suite (arr. for solo piano) Iyad Sughayer (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Andrew Litton (BIS) Flexatone or musical saw? We’ll get ...

A new documentary from Paramount+, How Music Got Free, tells the inside story of how albums shed their exoskeletons and became something more ethereal and less profitable. Produced by LeBron James and ...