Now hear this: Sales of recorded music in the U.S. grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2023, with streams accounting for a dominant 84% and vinyl up by double digits again, the RIAA said in its ...

“Everything is under control,” Meshell Ndegeocello sings, again and again, throughout “Call the Tune,” a haunted hymn amidst the collection of mystical prayers, jazz vamps, and folk musings that ...

Let’s get this out of the way: Taylor Swift dominated the year in music, and it wasn’t even close. Four-year-old songs of hers topped the charts. She sold physical albums at a head-spinning rate. Her ...

“I don’t know how to feel, but I wanna try,” sang Billie Eilish, as Barbie, and in 2023, some of us knew exactly how she felt. (Or couldn’t.) Fortunately, there are about 35 million songs a year being ...

There are years when there are major tours. And then there was 2023. Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Pink and Ed Sheeran stormed stadiums. Are you exhausted? We're exhausted. But in a totally exhilarating way.

Amid big gains for country and Latin, R&B/hip-hop's dominance appears to be waning, according to Billboard's year-end music genre rankings. By Dan Rys By almost every metric, the music business in ...

Last year’s vinyl revenue in the US more than doubled the amount spent on CDs. Last year’s vinyl revenue in the US more than doubled the amount spent on CDs. People bought 43 million vinyl records ...

Former President Barack Obama is giving us insight into the songs that made it onto his playlists this year. Obama released his favorite music of 2023 on his social media accounts on Friday and wrote, ...