The Discogs Community has reached another milestone. Contributors have added more than 15 million releases to the Database!
This is an extraordinary achievement — but what does that much music actually look like?
After taking a closer look, Discogs determined that getting through all of the genres, styles, and formats represented in the database would require several lifetimes of non-stop listening. Below, you’ll find a breakdown of mind-boggling information that could only come from the world’s largest online music database.
The Overwhelming Amount of Time
How long would it take to listen to every physical release cataloged in the Discogs Database? An exact calculation would be impossible since there are so many variables, but using a few conservative estimates can provide some eye-opening perspectives.
More than 12 million of the releases are on vinyl, CD, or cassette. That’s over 345,522,310 minutes of music, which means it would take 657 years to listen to every release. That’s not including a few million odds and ends (digital files and rare formats) also included in the Database!
