Listen to 68 tracks that made major statements, boosted big beefs, propelled up-and-comers and soundtracked the party this year. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles Here’s a ...

THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW — Episode 7I147 — Pictured: Harry Connick, Jr. — (Photo by: Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal via Getty Images) Acclaimed actor and jazz music great Harry Connick Jr. has had an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matthew Leimkuehler is a music journalist from Nashville, Tennessee. 2024 may be remembered as the year of “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” ...

Gospel songs continued to evolve and inspire throughout 2024, bringing together traditional spiritual elements with contemporary sounds. These songs offered comfort, hope, and spiritual guidance ...

The year 2024, like 2023, was one where content creation and streaming's deluge of thousands of new songs directly impacted Nashville's stranglehold on America's pop cultural evolution. More pop icons ...

Back in July, Luminate, which provides chart data for Billboard, shared the most-streamed songs of the year so far. In the top ten, only three songs were actually released in 2025, while the rest of ...

2024 was a year of breakthroughs, with new stars storming the top of the charts and artists across genres making modern classics. NPR Music's list... A side effect of the way we listen to music in the ...

BI's music reporter ranked the 20 best songs of 2024. Charli XCX, Chappell Roan, Doechii, Kendrick Lamar, and Raye round out the top five. Listen to the complete ranking on Business Insider's Spotify.

Music critics—myself included—have spent much of the past several years bemoaning the decline of capital-“E” Events in music: no new superstars to crown, no more tentpole albums to unify us, no more ...

Last week, we unveiled our 100 Best Albums of 2024 list, which was topped by the likes of Jessica Pratt, Sturgill Simpson, Waxahatchee, Beyoncé, Fontaines D.C. and numerous other acts we still can’t ...