The Archive of Contemporary Music

The ARChive of Contemporary Music (ARCmusic.org) is a not-for-profit archive, music library and research center located in New York City since 1985.

ARC contains more than three million sound recordings. That’s 90 + million songs. We preserve copies of each version of every recording, in all known formats, and have electronically catalogued more than 400,000 sound recordings and digitized 200,000 with out partners the Internet Archive – more than any other public, university or private library in America. ARC also houses more than three million pieces of attendant support material including photographs, videos, DVDs, books, magazines, press kits, sheet music, ephemera and memorabilia.

The ARChive collects, preserves and provides information on the popular music of all cultures and races throughout the world from 1950 to the present.