CDs

It’s the end of an era for bricks-and-mortar music retail in far north Queensland, as a raft of Sanity stores close their doors. All three Sanity outlets in Cairns are set to close later in January,…

Australia’s recorded music industry punched through a difficult year, posting 7.3% growth across the market, with streaming services powering most of the gains. According to new data published…

The recently released Recording Industry Association of America mid-year report confirmed what we already knew — physical and digital sales are on the decline, with music streaming on the up and up.…

That's that then. Kmart have quietly begun discounting DVDs, CDs and Blu-Ray (LOL) as they start phasing the products out completely from both their physical and online stores. Now is the time to buy…

Whenever I think of the MiniDisc, I think of Ixnay On The Hombre by The Offspring. I went to high school with a guy who was so sure of the MiniDisc's impending dominance as a future format leader…

Findings from Amazon.com.au reveal that when it comes to buying music, Australians prefer vinyl to CDs. Since December 2017, Aussies have bought three times more in the big black format than disks.…

Has the latest ARIA report signalled the finals days of the humble CD?

One of the most underappreciated losses to the musical world since the rapid decline of the CD from our collective culture has been the disappearance of the secret song. Now, the secret song was…

ARIA's most recent report confirms what many of us clinging to stacks of cracked jewel cases cannot bear ourselves to accept: that streaming is how people absorb music these days. But what about the…

CD-Rs are old hat, MP3s are so last decade. The fastest-rising piracy plague in the U.K. is stream-ripping, a blight “overwhelmingly overshadowing all other illegal music services,” according to a…