If you've developed a habit of burning business presentations and other work-related documents to CD, you can clear up a great deal of office space with the help of an external hard drive. By ...

The novelty of the 99-cent song has worn off. The ugly reality of Digital Rights Management (DRM) has settled in. The music-download revolution is over. It's time to go back to buying CDs. Is it?

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last night I decided to buy a bunch of old-man albums from my youth that I’ve never ...

It’s no secret that the compact disc is a medium on the decline, but its death is one of the slowest — ahem — on record. The ever-growing download pool offers no substantial physical substitute, and ...

Digital downloads had a short run as the top-selling format in the music industry. It took until 2011, a decade after the original iPod came out, for their sales surpass those of CDs and vinyl records ...

NEW YORK – Music executives love to blame illegal downloading for their industry's woes. But based on the results of a new nationwide poll, they might want to look in the mirror. Eighty percent of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) just released its midyear compilation of recorded music industry sales data ...