Discogs, the go-to website for finding out that the Tom Petty vinyl you found in your uncle’s collection is only worth two dollars, has now surpassed several data milestones. After receiving nearly 355,000 contributors in the month of May, the Discogs database now contains five million artists, one million labels, and thanks to a dedicated group of sticklers who really need to distinguish between cassette versions of Shakedown Street, 8.5 million releases. That’s a big boy!
Founded 17 years ago by (presumably) the Discogs triplets of Kevin, Sven, and Archibald, Discogs has quickly grown into the internet’s largest music community in the world. I mean, did you see those numbers in the first paragraph? Discogs is so big right now, it could headline Radio City Music Hall. It’s so big, it could play in the NBA even though it doesn’t meet the league’s age minimum. Hell, Discogs is SO BIG, it could totally beat up your dad.
Even after reaching these milestone numbers, Discogs continues to grow still, adding an average of 26,000 new releases every week. The website’s extensive database has also recently been integrated into Ticketfly, giving that ticketing service a five million artist-sized boost with all of it’s sweet, sweet, user-submitted data.
All joking aside, Discogs truly has become the hub for easily cataloging music collections, as well as a convenient marketplace to buy and sell vinyl, CDs, cassettes, LaserDiscs, Minidiscs, Betamax, or reel-to-reels — and I swear those last four aren’t even a joke. And as long there are people that care about doing those things, Discogs is only going to keep growing. Yup, when it comes to music websites, one things is crystal clear: Discogs is the undisputed second best music website out there…still trailing Tiny Mix Tapes by a wide margin.
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