Amazon's October Prime Day 2026 music sale features discounts of up to 30% on vinyl records and CDs from Charli xcx, ...

CDs are booming again. According to an industry report by Luminate, the first half of 2026 saw a 16 percent surge in CD sales — and you might be surprised by who's buying them. Gen Z and millennial ...

Is this a recent development, or are you a die-hard compact disc fan? What do you like about the format?

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 ...

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 ...

I stopped letting my daughter browse Spotify after inappropriate playlist images appeared in search. Now she explores music ...

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 ...

Fed up with paying to stream music you’ll never actually own? Give the little silver disc a spin. Here’s how to start a CD collection or get more out of one you already have. When I started collecting ...