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The Best-Selling Records on Discogs This Week: January 17, 2025
This week on Discogs, Taylor Swift is doing Taylor Swift things. The pop culture titan topped the list…
The Discogs Community’s Favorite Albums of 2024
The community has spoken. At the end of 2024, Discogs asked followers on X, Instagram, and Facebook to…
Chappell Roan’s Vinyl Revolution
Artist of the Year 2024 Chappell Roan’s Vinyl Revolution By Lisa Foster Vinyl culture unites fans who often…
Protecting Physical Media: Combatting CD and DVD Rot
Disc rot affects CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, and LaserDiscs in different ways depending on how they’re manufactured and structured. Generally…
How To Store Vinyl Records
Knowing how to store vinyl records is crucial while building a collection. We’ll do our best to answer…
What to Know About Black vs. Color Vinyl
For decades, colored vinyl was looked upon as some open joke. A way that record companies could charge…
Exploring Japan’s Ambient Music Boom of the ’80s and ’90s
By James Balmont The newfound popularity of Japan’s ambient, new age kankyō ongaku (literally: “environmental music”) over the…
Discogs Greatest Hits of 2024
Discogs Greatest Hits of 2024 Discogs’ Greatest Hits aren’t just a “best of” list – they reflect the…
The Best-Selling Records on Discogs This Week: January 10, 2025
This week, the charts are dominated by rising stars and iconic reissues. Doechii takes the lead after a…
In Season: Icy Electronic and Ambient Albums for Winter
Technically, there are no “warm” or “cold” sounds. No thermometer exists that can detect a difference in temperature…
20 Essential Philly Soul Albums: 1968-1983
By Brandon Ousley American cities have always shaped the musical fabric of national popular culture. In the 1960s,…
The Most Valuable Releases Sold on Discogs in December 2024
As 2024 ended, record collectors stayed on the hunt for rarities, and several were rewarded for their efforts.…
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