How’s this for a fun stat? According to Billboard, CD sales (remember those?) actually increased in sales for the first time since everyone you knew got their first iPod. That’s right, your eyes don’t deceive you. In 2021, sales increased by 6.3% year-over-year totaling 108.98 million. That number was up from the 102.48 million units in […]
Throughout the 1990s, corporate CD clubs like Columbia House and the BMG Music Service dumped millions upon millions of compact discs on a consumer public ready to replace their vinyl collections en masse. But with an unbelievably cheap collection of great music came contracts full of semantic trickery, double asterisks, and paragraphs in parentheses. BMG […]
Considering the hyperactive mind of the modern music listener, the 50 million songs in Spotify’s catalog and Amazon’s universe of subpar listening devices, can anyone tell which music medium sounds best anymore? What does “sounds best” even mean? While we’re at it, what the hell is sound? Glad you asked because there’s a whole lotta […]