Is TikTok the future of the music industry? Maybe so, as a handful of songs went viral and landed on charts they'd never touched before thanks to the video platform, which is the 6th most popular ...

All year, our friends at NPR Music sift through a nonstop deluge of new songs. Now the sifting for 2022 at least has come to an end, and they've made a list of their top 100 songs of the year. To ...

Back catalog business is booming -- and these collections made the most of it. By Ron Hart Back catalogs are big business in this music industry. It seems as though every couple of months you read ...

2022 was an amazing year for music. We got much-anticipated new music from some of the biggest names in the business. Beyoncé blessed us with Renaissance. Taylor Swift kept us up late with Midnights.

For decades, reggae and other styles of Jamaican music have infiltrated popular music worldwide. It’s in the DNA of everything from hip hop to punk to electronic music to reggaeton to Afrobeats and ...

Sleigh bells ring — are you listening? The holidays are upon us once again and as usual, lots of artists have recorded new holiday songs, many covers but also some original creations to. We’ve ...

From R&B and rock to hip-hop, country, pop, and more alternative compositions, this year, music has returned to its fuller form. Throughout 2022, we welcomed music from all your favorite artists, ...

I’ve never been particularly strategic about listening to new music; I tend to pursue it in arbitrary bursts or to let it float into my life in whichever way it can. I’m not even sure I could impose ...

In 2022, the destruction of gender that grandpas all over the world were worried about finally made it to the top of the pop charts. Kind of. Sam Smith and Kim Petras’s “Unholy” reached number one on ...

Afropop — a catch-all term casting a wide net over the diverse musical approaches originating and dominating from Africa — has long been a center of the Black diasporic experience, from which so much ...

Nearly one in 14 Latin audio and visual streams since they were released was a song from artist Bad Bunny’s album Un Verano Sin Ti or the Encanto soundtrack, according to music tracker Luminate’s 2022 ...