The Grateful Dead's musical legacy continues with the certification of a Guinness World Record for number of Top 40 albums on ...

Compact discs, or CDs, were revolutionary when they first emerged as a new medium for listening to music in the 1980s. Part of their success is alluded to in the name itself: the slim, compact size of ...

Record collectors rejoice: Vinyl record sales went from nearly obsolete to the most profitable form of physical music. Records are projected to sell more units than CDs in 2019 for the first time ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Hoping to crack down on music piracy, five major record labels have quietly begun selling CDs containing technology that foils attempts by customers to copy the songs onto blank discs ...

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 ...

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 ...

I n 2025, streaming services — commonly Spotify and the many competing music streaming services — are the most common way ...

The RIAA Annual US Recorded Music Revenue Report Reveals Vinyl Records Sales Have Passed CDs for 1st Time Since 1987. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has released its final report ...

The days of vinyl records being a nostalgic relic of the past are long gone. This year, vinyl sales have outpaced CD sales in the United States for the first time since the 1980s. Vinyl records ...

Regular readers of my blogs will know that I have described myself as a "music obsessive" and that I am an avid record and CD collector. When I get into a particular band or artist I try to track down ...

It is easy to get nostalgic for the era when most music lovers bought LPs. They would save their pennies for a Saturday trip to the local record store, before heading home clutching their glorious new ...