Take a look, in GIF form, at how the music industry has changed over the past four decades.

Amazingly, giving the consumers exactly what they want on their terms has meant consumers like paying for music again.

The music industry pulled a reverse NBC, and posted its first revenue gain since 1999.

Adele has had the top-selling album. Which came out in 2010. Uh oh.

Patrick Dierson is an expert in concert tour lighting who's worked with everyone from Kanye West to the Rolling Stones, and we spoke to him about his job.

One of the problems with the RIAA's constant complaints about piracy and how it hurts the artist is that it's an advocacy group for an industry that its own artists aren't necessarily big fans of.

We've explained previously how iTunes and its refusal to sell albums is the driving factor in the music industry's plunging revenues (oh noes, ONLY $6.

Hey, remember when music companies were all like "you can't rip our CDs, so there," and then people said "Hey, I can use a Sharpie and defeat your controls".