As cassette tapes see a resurgence in popularity due to a number of factors, music database Discogs has reached over one million entries.
As cassette tapes see a resurgence in popularity due to a number of factors, music database Discogs has reached over one million entries.
Vinyl record sales on Discogs in 2020 grew by even more than was projected in their Mid-Year Report – 40.75% more than in 2019, to be exact.
2008’s Choose Your Weapon by the virtually unheard-of Scaramanga Silk has exchanged hands for the sum of $41,095 – an all-time record for Discogs.
Following the lead of one of their forum members, Discogs has called upon the music community to help build a directory of Black-owned record stores.
Discogs’ mid-year report is chock-full of data on cross-genre physical music consumption and aggregated consumer music tastes during the first half of 2020.