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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In brief: As with so many retro items, it seems that the next thing making a comeback is the CD. The humble compact disc is experiencing a vinyl-like resurgence that has seen CD music sales increase ...

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 ...

The music industry's removal of the physical CD single created record revenues at the end of the 1990s but many argue the strategy also accelerated piracy and permanently changed music consumption.