MusicTimelines
The worldwide music industry, one moment at a time.
Music Timelines traces the music industry worldwide, from Edison’s phonograph to the streaming chart, and the contributions from every part of the world that changed how people make, sell and hear music.
What we cover
The machines and the business: cylinders, discs, radio, the LP, the cassette, the CD and the stream, and the labels, studios and charts built around them. And the music itself, from everywhere: Lagos and Accra, Havana and Rio, Cairo and Mumbai, Kingston and Kinshasa, Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Seoul and Tokyo, as well as Memphis, Detroit, Liverpool and London.
How we work
Real people, real records, real dates. We do not invent quotes, and where the history is disputed we say so.
The network
Music Timelines is part of The Timeline Network.