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The latest wax stats are in, and the vinyl business is booming. Yesterday, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) released their 2025 Year-End Recorded Music Revenue Report, which confirmed that vinyl sales surpassed $1 billion ($1B) in the U.S. alone in 2025, a figure that also accounts for nearly 50% of our favorite format’s global revenue total. Read on to see just how much, and for how long, vinyl has continued to dominate the physical format marketplace. . .

Miles Davis would have been 100 years old this year, and in celebration of that most momentous centennial milestone, Columbia/Legacy have returned one of the most requested, pivotal, and iconic live performances in the artist’s storied career to the marketplace: The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965, a 10LP box set reissued on January 30, 2026. Read Mark Smotroff’s review to see why this historically important collection deserves both its reputation and its rightful place in your collection. . .

So put me on a highway, and show me a sign. If you know your Eagles music, then you know that’s a key line from the quintessential California band’s “Take It to the Limit,” one of the hit singles from June 1975’s chart-topping One of These Nights LP. Well, the sign is this: Rhino has just announced that One of These Nights (Deluxe Edition) will be released as a 3LP set on May 1, 2026. Read AP editor Mike Mettler’s preview to see what additional material fills out this must-have collection. . .

Fans of Beck David Hansen know that this multitalented singer/songwriter, producer/performer is something of a musical chameleon who delivers his music cross-pollinated in rock, folk, Latin, hip-hop, and even symphonic sounds. This all made his triple-Grammy-winning February 2014 Capitol LP Morning Phase all the more of a surprise, as it was a lush slow-moving, ambient-flavored, acoustic-driven masterpiece that commands rapt attention from listeners. The new Definitive Sound Series (DSS) reissue of Morning Phase from Fonograf/Capitol now makes it easier than ever to kick back and just float upstream with Beck’s music. Read Mark Smotroff’s review to see all the reasons why the DSS edition of Morning Phase is a must-have. . .