Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Most albums are lucky to reach the charts, and even some of the ...

Discog's most collected vinyl of 2025 includes music from Taylor Swift, The Beatles, Frank Ocean, Pink Floyd, Depeche Mode, Oasis and more.

Using books, interviews, and primary news sources, Stacker has compiled a list of 25 times LGBTQ+ artists made music history.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press has selected the 10 best songs of the year, presented in no particular order. Read on and then listen to all of the tracks on our Spotify playlist. Selecting just ...

The Associated Press has selected the 10 best songs of the year, presented in no particular order. Read on and then listen to all of the tracks on our Spotify playlist. “Lo que le paso a Hawaii” Bad ...

From Bad Bunny to Rosalía, Metacritic's top 10 albums of 2025 celebrate bold risks and career-defining releases.

Awards season is upon us, and chatter is abound over how much marketing is too much. With Marty Supreme, we’re surely going ...

BET has put the iconic music show on indefinite hiatus, eliminating a key platform for artists often ignored by the Grammys.

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

The first solo album in three years from the New York rapper (and his first release since his twin 2023 stunners, the Kenny Segal collab Maps, which landed on our 2023 year-end list, and Armand Hammer ...

Google released its end of year search recap, and Forrest Frank’s “Your Way’s Better” landed as a top ten song on the ...

This year, Kehlani turned 30 after spending more than a decade flying — and at times flailing — in the public eye as one of R&B’s modern torchbearers.