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In the streaming era, intros vanished and the average charting song fell to about three minutes. Streaming pays per play, not per minute. Yet the top 10 hits of 2024 were the longest since 2017, a sign the shrinking may have peaked.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile began its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time on 30 June 2026. It photographs the whole southern sky every few nights, sending millions of public alerts about changes each night.
In the United States, vinyl records have outsold CDs every year since 2022, and vinyl revenue passed $1 billion in 2025. In the first half of 2026, however, CD sales grew much faster than vinyl, and in the UK the CD still sells more units.
