Back in the days before Edison invented recorded sound, all music was live. But now most people hear recorded music most of the time. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as ...

Now hear this: Sales of recorded music in the U.S. grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2023, with streams accounting for a dominant 84% and vinyl up by double digits again, the RIAA said in its ...

My latest animated “bar chart race” visualization above (click the arrow to start) shows the format shares of recorded music sales annually from 1973 to 2022 based on new mid-year sales data that were ...

The use of pre-recorded tracks in the David Byrne–Fatboy Slim musical Here Lies Love is pitting New York City’s musicians’ union against the show’s producers, with the union calling the concept an ...