Searching a music database for the missing album information in a music CD disc. Old, as well as many new, music CDs do not contain artist name, album and song titles, but MP3, AAC and other ...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recently released recorded music sales revenue figures for 2016 and some of the historical music sales data from the RIAA are displayed in the two ...

Independent music critic Christian Bordal reviews artists for Day to Day, and wrote this report on his favorite songs and CDs of the past year: The following is a list of the 50 CDs that most captured ...

The shiny compact disc, once as essential to every living-room music system as a copy of Michael Jackson's Thriller album, is quickly going the way of the eight-track and cassette tape. The rise 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 ...

Musicals are one of the few forms of theatre – invariably a transitory, in-the-moment experience – that can continue playing long after the curtain comes down. Thanks to the industry of Original Cast ...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) just released its midyear compilation of recorded music industry sales data for 2020. Although the numbers follow trends that have existed in the ...

I expected David Bowie’s death to make me nostalgic, but not this way. Like many people, I spent the days after his passing relistening to Bowie records I hadn’t played in years. One night, it felt ...

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 ...

Last fall, music giant Universal announced a sweeping plan to cut the price of new records by thirty percent — with some CDs selling for just $12.98. But anyone checking out racks at a music store ...

What.cd, an invite-only music torrent website first launched in 2007, has been shut down after a raid by French authorities. The private tracker offered free (and often illegal) access to a massive, ...