Best Albums to Own on Vinyl: The Starter List for 2026
When Columbia engineers cut Miles Davis, Kind of Blue in 1959, they captured most of it in first takes, the players reading sketches Davis handed them in the studio. That...

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When Columbia engineers cut Miles Davis, Kind of Blue in 1959, they captured most of it in first takes, the players reading sketches Davis handed them in the studio. That...
In 1973, a small band from Cambridge spent weeks at Abbey Road and emerged with The Dark Side of the Moon , a record that went on to spend years...
When The Beatles stamped a unique serial number on every early copy of their 1968 double LP, the famous White Album, designer Richard Hamilton described the result as the irony...
Some records are not just popular, they are foundational. The best vinyl records of all time are the albums that rewrote their genres, sold by the tens of millions, and...
Discogs, eBay, record shops, fairs or auction houses: how to match your records to the right selling venue, with real fees and realistic payouts.
The most valuable 45 rpm records ever sold, from the Sex Pistols A&M single to Elvis on Sun, plus a checklist to spot valuable 7-inch singles in your own boxes.
A step-by-step method to identify exactly which pressing you own and what it is really worth: dead wax, catalog numbers, grading and real sold prices.
In December 2015, a single copy of The Beatles' White Album, the one stamped number 0000001 and once owned by Ringo Starr, sold at auction for $790,000. It is the...
When Jack White released the Lazaretto Ultra LP in 2014 on Third Man Records, the pressing sold roughly 40,000 vinyl copies in a single week, a SoundScan-era record that stood...
Beyonce surprise-released Lemonade on April 23, 2016 with no lead single, then watched it become one of the most discussed albums of the decade. That instinct for the full statement...
Three weeks. That's about how long Metallica spent in early 1984 at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen cutting Ride the Lightning , on a budget that started at $20,000 and...
In February 2025, Kendrick Lamar walked into the Grammys and walked out with five awards for a single song, "Not Like Us," including Record of the Year and Song of...