2012 was a positive year for the music industry after a decade of decline.

Phillip Lüpke of Germany grabbed the milestone track, “Monkey Drums” (Goksel Vancin Remix) by Chase Buch. That old fave.

The era of Sony's tiny, amazingly clever recordable optical disc is over.

Digital album sales increased 14 percent in 2012, a Nielsen report found.

Pandora should be worried-- its investors were, as the firm's stock price plunged 12% after reports that Apple was planning to launch a competitor next year.

The music storage system has floated over the Atlantic and come to rest-- fluffily--above France, Germany and the U.K.