Country singer Jason Aldean released a new music video this week touting how small towns wouldn't put up with the kind of riots and lawlessness many cities across the country faced during the summer ...

Sale of individual songs aren’t doing very well in the U.S., as more and more listeners choose not to head to iTunes or Amazon to purchase tunes. Instead, millions of fans flock to streaming sites to ...

According to Apple Music, BTS’s smash hit “Dynamite” was the most-streamed song worldwide in 2021—despite being released in 2020! With the year winding to a close, Apple Music has released their ...

Nothing unites people like good music and a common cause. Every year, we release the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) which ranks countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Yassmine El-Rewini. Buy this photo. 1. “I Know the End,” Phoebe Bridgers Phoebe Bridgers ...

With music consumption in the U.S. growing by 12 percent in 2020, MRC Data revealed Lil Baby's My Turn wrapped 2020 as the most streamed album of the year. As for songs, Roddy Ricch walked away with ...

When we look back on 2020, many sounds will come to mind. The 7 p.m. cheers for frontline workers, Patti Labelle and Gladys Knight’s voices mingling together, the deafening silence of existential ...

There has already been a movie made about the pandemic. I imagine songs will start referencing it soon, too. Twitter even has a few ideas as to how they might go. Now it’s not nearly as involved as ...

There’s so much we’d like to erase about 2020 — but never, ever the elation, élan, empathy, harmony, rich social commentary and dumb fun that the year’s best music brought us. Yes, we do hope the door ...

This year we got a hint of what life without music would be like. And it sucked. The pandemic canceled a Grand Canyon sized chunk of live music, from dive-bar shows to stadium tours. Bands from local ...

Until this year if Mickey Guyton’s struggles had been turned into a country music song, its title could have been “Almost Famous.” Guyton was the Black country music singer who almost broke through ...

A year ago at this time, if you’d have told us that Van Morrison would be single-handedly responsible for nearly a third of a worst-songs-of-2020 list (and that this would not be some kind of weirdly ...