It doesn't happen too often, but once in a blue moon a hideous chart contains such a novel conceit that we have to post it. For example: This phenomenal little animated gif of music industry sales over the last 30 years.
The series ...READ»
What to do with CDs in the age of Spotify, iPods, and the collective realization that CD sound totally sucks? You could throw them in the rubbish bin or you could do what Elise Morin and Clémence Eliard have done and turn them into a ...READ»
Apple's new MacBook Airs and Mac Mini desktop machines have one less hole than they used to: A CD-DVD slot. Apple thinks the spinning optical drive is done. And soon the rest of the computing world will follow.READ»
Abandon hope, all ye traditional journalists who enter here: AOL has plans to be the "world's largest producer of high-quality content" and is hiring "hundreds" more content-generators to fill up its 17 new "super networks" of ...READ»
The slow death of physical media may be even slower than expected, if UMG's new pricing structure takes off: CDs will actually be priced lower than their digital versions.READ»
It's safe to say the music industry is in a transition period, but one thing that's not going anywhere? iTunes.
iTunes has quickly taken hold of a good portion of the entire music industry: it accounts for 25% of all music units sold ...READ»
It seems intuitive enough that downloading music would be less carbon-intensive than buying a CD that has been transported in a truck and wrapped in multiple layers of plastic. Now a study (PDF) funded by Intel and Microsoft and ...READ»
Users of Twitter buy more music than people who don't Twitter. This seems to be a classic halo-effect, but is it actually being caused by Twitter?READ»
Some audiophiles would argue "let it be," but the Beatles' discography is finally being brought fully into the digital 21st Century: Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI Music have just announced that the completely re-mastered ...READ»
