Compact discs are seeing a modest resurgence as younger listeners rediscover physical music formats, even as long-term sales ...

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 ...

World’s first CD manufactured at Philips factory near Hanover, Germany, on August 17, 1982 Philips and Sony co-developed CD – over 200 billion CDs sold in last 25 years CD ushered in shift from ...

Forty years ago today, a magnificent revolution swept across the music industry, making albums more accessible and enhanced audio playback. The Compact Disc became popular in the late 1980s and ...

The following story ran in the first-ever issue of SPIN in May 1985. Compact discs and compact disc players are the hottest things to hit the audio market since cassette tapes and players. However, ...

When it comes to music consumption, streaming continues to be the music industry's biggest earner. Sales of physical formats like CD and vinyl are declining overall, though the latter has been clawing ...