From the early Philips prototype to the eleven inaugural CD players we reviewed in 1983 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dire Straits in 1985 - Deborah Feingold/Getty Forty years ago this week, the British rock band Dire Straits released their fifth ...

For years, the compact disc felt like the most forgotten format in music history. Vinyl enjoyed a triumphant comeback. Cassette tapes clawed their way into indie credibility. CDs, meanwhile, sat in ...

This summer marks 40 years since the arrival of Bruce Springsteen's seminal Born in the U.S.A. album, but the milestone is just a tip of the iceberg for music lovers across the country. It's now 40 ...

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 ...

The following story ran in the first-ever issue of SPIN in May 1985. Compact discs and compact disc players are the hottest things to hit the audio market since cassette tapes and players. However, ...

In 2021, CD sales increased for the first time in 17 years. That’s mostly because of Adele, whose new album sold 898,000 of those shiny little discs. The last time CDs were this hot, Usher, Ashlee ...