The Decade In Music: '00s
The MP3 puts every song at your fingertips anytime and anywhere. Is it too much?
For the past 10 years, the record industry has struggled to control how we listen to music. But the shift from CD to MP3 is just the latest iteration in the evolution of formats. The MP3 file has yanked music free from physical formats entirely, and the number of ways fans can experience music has exploded.
Recent The Decade In Music: '00s
December 31, 2009 Recorded music in the past decade has gotten louder, and the ubiquity of MP3s changed what we hear.
December 31, 2009 Nothing illustrates the importance of singles sales this decade more clearly than the summer hit.
December 27, 2009 NPR Music's Tom Huizenga and host Guy Raz spin some notable classical recordings of the past decade.
January 14, 2010 Andrew Noz, of the blog CBRap, looks back on a decade of important hip-hop mixes.
December 30, 2009 Fans are taking the lead in digitizing cherished, out-of-print records, though not always legally.
December 29, 2009 Once, Tower Records was the place to go if you were searching for obscure music in any genre.
December 28, 2009 The video-sharing site has given us new shortcuts to fame, nostalgia and togetherness.
December 25, 2009 Blogs and Web sites have emerged over the past decade as important arbiters of musical taste.
December 24, 2009 The sound of success coming from Music City has become much less predictable in the past decade.
December 24, 2009 The social networking site, launched in 2003, is still a place where musicians build a fan base.
