Two decades after digital downloading was supposed to disintegrate the full-length LP, musicians seem as eager to collect and to sprawl — and sometimes to tighten up — as they’ve ever been. Here are ...

From top left to bottom right: Jamie xx (courtesy of Jamie xx), Peggy Gou (courtesy of Park Jongh Ha), Olan (courtesy of Meagan Rodriguez), Isoxo (courtesy of Isoxo) and Two Shell (courtesy of Two ...

The year in hip-hop saw the reinvention of the diss track, with “Not Like Us” entering the musical canon as a bonafide hit. But the year wasn’t all rap beef; the rap world delivered a variety of ...

Now that our Spotifys have been unwrapped, the 2024 Billboard Music Awards have uncloaked our collective listening moods. The BBMAs, which aired Thursday night, highlighted the songs, albums and ...

More music, more listeners, no problems. The global music industry hit 4.8 trillion streams in 2024, a new single-year record, Luminate’s 2024 Year-End Report found. That’s up 14% from 2023, which ...