[1] It was founded in October 1945 in Milan, Italy, on the initiative of the journalist and musicologist Aldo Mario De Luigi, a former record executive at La Voce Del Padrone-Columbia-Marconiphone (VCM, now EMI Italy).

[2] Originally, the magazine was published under the name Musica (Dischi was added on the second edition) on a monthly basis.

[2] In the 1960s, Musica e dischi started to issue a list of best-seller music recordings nationally.

[2] On its 735th issue in December 2009, Musica e dischi director Mario De Luigi announced that from March 2010 they would publish an online magazine and stop the publication of the physical magazine after 65 years.

[4][2] In June 2014, the magazine ceased to exist after almost 70 years and 783 issues (737 in physical and 46 in digital format).