Listened to more music last year? You're not alone. The global music industry surpassed 4 trillion streams in 2023, a new single-year record, Luminate’s 2023 Year-End Report found. Global streams were ...

Now hear this: Sales of recorded music in the U.S. grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2023, with streams accounting for a dominant 84% and vinyl up by double digits again, the RIAA said in its ...

Inglewood, CA - August 07: Taylor Swift performs during The Eras Tour at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) As I have done every ...

“Everything is under control,” Meshell Ndegeocello sings, again and again, throughout “Call the Tune,” a haunted hymn amidst the collection of mystical prayers, jazz vamps, and folk musings that ...

January 2, 2024 • Our resident Viking, Lars Gotrich, connects epic Japanese storytelling, soul-sampling powerviolence, ambient rap and beautiful noise through thematic webs of history and memory.

In 2023, country music is more diverse and wide-ranging than ever. But just four artists still dominate the Top 10 of Billboard's 2023 Year-End Top Country Albums wrap-up, according to scores compiled ...

Spotify created the concept of a year-end look at the music you listened to most, but Apple Music beat out Spotify by releasing its Apple Music Replay stats a full day earlier. Apple listeners' data ...

Let’s get this out of the way: Taylor Swift dominated the year in music, and it wasn’t even close. Four-year-old songs of hers topped the charts. She sold physical albums at a head-spinning rate. Her ...

In November, the National Museum of African American Music opened the next installment of This Is Hip-Hop, its ongoing exhibit series marking 50 years of one of America’s most important contributions ...

Welcome back to our yearly exploration of the best underground and lesser-known music videos of the year. If it got less than a million plays on YouTube, it was eligible for consideration. Let’s dive ...

In mid-November, the musician André 3000—one-half of the beloved hip-hop duo OutKast, which released six idiosyncratic and irrepressible records between 1994 and 2006—announced that he was, at long ...