It's funny how certain things in life go full circle. Take something as banal as, say, windows. The first windows were little more than simple square or rectangular holes cut into the sides of early ...

For many, a 12-inch platter of vinyl, spinning 33 1/3 revolutions per minute, exemplifies how they first listened to music. But long before rock and roll, soul, and other popular music styles were ...

“I don’t know how we ever did with out the LP,” says Composer Roy Harris. “It is to music what the printing press was to literature.” Comparing the influence of the long-playing record to Gutenberg is ...

US sales of vinyl LP records rose just 1% in the first half of 2022, suggesting a cooling after years of dramatic growth and a spike during the pandemic. About 19.4 million vinyl LP records were sold ...

It's the life of a saleswoman. Taylor Swift's 12th studio album, "The Life of a Showgirl," sold 2.7 million copies in traditional album sales — which include physical and digital formats — in its ...

Frank Ocean is notoriously tight-lipped about any possibility of any new music from him. It’s been nearly five years since the musician’s last full-length release and it was looking like he was ...

In the record war between RCA Victor and Columbia Records, Inc., both sides have hotly wooed Decca Records, Inc. as a prospective ally. But Decca, third largest U.S. recordmaker, has played hard to ...

Spotify's Taylor Swift pop-up at The Grove for her new album "The Tortured Poets Department" at The Grove in Los Angeles. Just how hyped are people about the release of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured ...

Vinyl records have seen a resurgence in popularity, with 2022 sales surpassing CDs for the first time in 39 years. Columbia Records introduced the first long-play (LP) vinyl record, building on ...