With the 66th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles Sunday, Feb. 4, here’s a look at the modern world of music. The music business is doing well, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By the summer of 1995, vinyl records were almost obsolete. People listened to music on the radio, cassettes or CDs. Then along ...

This chart shows the share of global recorded music revenue in 2025, by format (in percent).

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 ...

In a response to National Public Radio‘s submitted statistics in October 2010 (see below), the Federal Communications Commission wrote: “Looking at the same 505 public radio stations in 2001 and in ...