Physical media showed strong signs of life last year. The 2021 RIAA Music Industry Data confirms that vinyl and CDs are going nowhere but up. Americans purchased how many new records in 2021? 40 ...

“Too much pain,” Young M.A. offers on her second LP, “could barely notice the beauty in things.” Not only did these albums provide comfort and commiseration, they also taught me new ways to listen, to ...

The world's biggest label closed out 2021 with over $5B in streaming revenue. By Ed Christman The Universal Music Group’s revenue grew by more than 1 billion euros in 2021 to 8.5 billion euros ($10.1 ...

In its latest annual rundown, the video-sharing app highlights the biggest songs, artists and viral success stories of the past year. By Chris Eggertsen TikTok has released its 2021 Music Report, ...

The year’s best experiments ranged from Blank Gloss’s ambient Americana to Space Afrika’s manipulated Manchester field recordings and Floating Points’ extraordinary electronic masterpiece So much new ...

Read on and learn from some of the most viral music campaigns of 2022 from our friends at Symphonic. A guest post by Randi Zimmerman of Symphonic Blog. This year was a wild ride. All the while, ...

Many Latin artists emerged from the first throes of the pandemic taking bolder risks than ever before in their work — whether fashioning genres anew or confronting injustice at home and abroad. Here ...

This year, many of the books we loved most used music as a lens through which to examine broader issues of politics, history, and identity — whether it was the story of capitalist circulation as heard ...

In a year saturated with excellent releases — luminous false starts idling in the shadow of this never-ending global tragedy — projects that maximized ferality won me over. Identifying and rejecting ...