Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Benjamin is a New York-based writer covering global pop music. ROSÉ performs "APT." live with Bruno Mars at the 2024 MAMA ...

Spotify Wrapped 2024 is here. This means personalized year-end listening data for every user, but it also means Spotify reveals the top artists, songs, and albums across all of Spotify in 2024. One of ...

In a year of exuberance and dread, songs came from every which way to comfort, to amuse, to haunt, to tantalize. Here, in descending order of greatness, are the 30 best of the year. 1. Chappell Roan, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the ...

2024 was an unmatched year for pop music. From “Cowboy Carter” to “Brat” and “Espresso” to “Not Like Us,” Page Six ranked the releases that kept us grooving all year long. See our list of the five ...

If you were hoping for the pop madness of 2024 to slow down and start making sense: good luck, babe! Because there has never, ever, been a pop year like the hot-not-pretty mess that was 2024. Week to ...

For at least a decade now – since Billboard started counting music streams in its chart calculations in 2013, and probably before – the sound of pop music has been sharply bifurcated between the ...

More music, more listeners, no problems. If you streamed a lot more music in 2024 — and in particular, a lot of women pop performers — you are not alone. In the U.S., on-demand audio streams grew at a ...

Thanks to the massive success of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter album and the long-running Billboard hits from country singers such as Zach Bryan and Morgan Wallen in 2024, this year's DJ Earworm United ...

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).” ...