Michael Jackson photographed in 1987. It's not Jackson's most famous album, but 'Bad' achieved something none of his -- or anyone else's -- albums had before. Thirty years ago today -- on Aug. 31, 1987 -- Michael Jackson debuted one of the most anticipated albums in the history of pop music: Bad, the follow-up to 1982's Thriller, which had already been certified 20-times platinum by the RIAA upon its successor's release, well on its way to becoming the best-selling album of a

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In a rare instance of a record company doing the right thing, Sony became the first major label to legalize unofficial remixes and DJ mixes. It’s not like DJs were ever going to stop borrowing copyrighted samples for remixes. Remixes can’t be stopped! But now, finally, you’re going to start seeing more remixes on Spotify and Apple Music. The somewhat surprising (if long overdue) move comes with a deal Sony just signed with Dubset, a San Francisco-based startup that fingerprin

A wise man by the name of Lil Yachty once asked, "Am I the only one who really care about cover art?" Today, we're here to answer that question. But before we can get there, it's important to understand the history of album art. To do that, we have to know the history of the physical album. Lots of histories, I know. Anyways, the "album" as we know it was pioneered by German recording company Odean who released Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky on four double sided discs in 190