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Discogs
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Screenshot of Discogs home page on February 12, 2025
Type of site
Music
Available inEnglish, German, Spanish, Portuguese (BR), French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian
Headquarters
Beaverton, Oregon, U.S.[1][2]
OwnerZink Media, LLC[3]
Created byKevin Lewandowski
IndustryInternet
ServicesDatabase, online shopping
RevenueAdvertising, marketplace fees
Employees110[4]
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CommercialPartially
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedNovember 2000; 25 years ago (2000-11)

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Discogs (/dɪˈskɒɡz/ Script error: No such module "Respell".; short for "discographies") is an online database and marketplace for audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. Database contents are user-generated, and described in The New York Times as "Wikipedia-like", and users can purchase vinyl records, CDs, cassette tapes, and other music formats from online sellers.[5] Its specialty and innovation is to distinguish the specific releases of music (for example, over 400 different versions of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack).

While the site was originally created with the goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music,[6] it now includes releases in all genres and on all formats.[5] By 2015, it had a new goal: that of "cataloging every single piece of physical music ever created."[7] As of 2026, its database contains over 19 million user-submitted release listings.[8]

History

Discogs was started in 2000 by Kevin Lewandowski who worked as a programmer at Intel.[9][5] It was originally started from a computer in Lewandowski's closet and was limited to electronic music. By 2015, Discogs had 37 employees, 3 million users, and a monthly traffic of 20 million visits.[5]

In 2005, Discogs launched a marketplace where users can buy and sell albums.[10] The Discogs Marketplace is modeled similar to Amazon and eBay, where sellers offer items for sale and a fee is charged on the sold item.[11] Its release listings are filterable by the country they ship from, format, currency, genre, style, format description, media condition, year released, seller name, and whether the buyer is invited to "make an offer."

In July 2007, a new subscription-based system for sellers was introduced on the site, called Market Price History. It gave premium users access to the past price items that were sold for up to 12 months ago by previous sellers who had sold exactly the same release (though 60 days of information was free). At the same time, the US$12 per year charge for advanced subscriptions was abolished, as it was felt that the extra features should be made available to all subscribers, now that a different revenue stream had been found from sellers and purchasers. Later that year, all paid access features were discarded and full use of the site became free of charge, allowing all users to view the full 12-month Market Price History of each item.[6]

In addition to the database and marketplace, Discogs operates an online editorial platform, Discogs Digs, which publishes interviews and record-collection profiles under series such as "Vinylogue" and has featured DJs and collectors including Thurston Moore, Colleen "Cosmo" Murphy, DJ Marky and Argentine selector and music curator Soledad Rodríguez Zubieta (SRZ).[12][13][14][15]

See also

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Privacy Policy". Discogs. Retrieved December 13, 2023. [...] Zink Media, LLC (d/b/a Discogs), 4145 SW Watson Avenue, Suite 350, Beaverton, Oregon, USA 97005.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Greenwald, David (December 29, 2015). "Inside Discogs, Beaverton's $100 million record store". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on June 30, 2023. Retrieved June 30, 2023.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Terms of Service". Discogs. Retrieved December 13, 2023. The domains discogs.com (including subdomains) and nearmint.io, related applications, and any of Our associated services, including Application Program Interfaces ("APIs"), (collectively, the "Service"), owned and operated by Zink Media, LLC (d/b/a Discogs) [...]
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Prado, Ryan J. (May 14, 2026). "Get Into the Groove". Portland Mercury. Retrieved May 22, 2026.
  5. ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sisario, Ben (December 29, 2015). "Discogs Turns Record Collectors' Obsessions Into Big Business". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
  6. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Saunders, Luke (September 8, 2021). "Discogs: what is it, where it came from, and how to use it". Happy Mag. Retrieved October 8, 2019.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lewandowski, Kevin (March 4, 2016). "Guest Column - How Discogs Organised the World's Record Collection". Q the Music. Archived from the original on April 20, 2017. Retrieved February 27, 2025.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Find Music on Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved February 27, 2025.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Carnes, Richard (March 26, 2010). "Discogs: Vinyl revolution". Resident Advisor. Retrieved December 13, 2023. It took about six months working nights and weekends on Discogs, and I launched it in November 2000.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Garber, David (February 26, 2015). "How Discogs Dragged Record Collecting Into the 21st Century". Vice. Retrieved March 13, 2022.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Savage, Mark (May 2, 2018). "Vinyl collectors spent millions on Discogs last year". BBC News. Archived from the original on May 2, 2018. Retrieved June 30, 2023.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Vinylogue – Soledad Rodríguez Zubieta". Discogs Digs. April 9, 2025. Retrieved December 1, 2025.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Vinylogue: Thurston Moore and the Smell of Vinyl". Discogs Digs. Retrieved December 1, 2025.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Vinylogue: Deep Listening with Colleen "Cosmo" Murphy". Discogs Digs. Retrieved December 1, 2025.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Vinylogue: DJ Marky on Vinyl's Enduring Magic". Discogs Digs. Retrieved December 1, 2025.
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