BTS. Alex Isley. Dubstep-infused hyperpop from underscores. NPR Music's Hazel Cills chats with Francesca Harding of member station KCRW in Los Angeles about their favorite albums out Friday, March 20.

Compact discs, or CDs, were revolutionary when they first emerged as a new medium for listening to music in the 1980s. Part of their success is alluded to in the name itself: the slim, compact size of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dan Levine loves watching his guests light up when they see his DVD-lined bookcases and drawers in his Brooklyn apartment. It’s as ...

Apple Music has officially revealed what it has deemed as the greatest album of all time. The music streaming service has finished sharing its list of the 100 best albums in history, by exclusively ...

"I realized I had a decent collection of music, knew how to access CDs, buy music for an iPod and own it,” one told Newsweek.

If you ask people if they're buying music CDs these days, the answer is increasingly likely to be no. Sales of music CDs are plummeting. So far this year, CD sales are down 20 percent. NPR's Wendy ...

CDs aren’t exactly cutting-edge in 2025. Since the peak years around the turn of the millennium, sales have plummeted because streaming services like Spotify have taken over. But there are still times ...

Dispelling the deep magics ...

A new documentary from Paramount+, How Music Got Free, tells the inside story of how albums shed their exoskeletons and became something more ethereal and less profitable. Produced by LeBron James and ...