Listened to more music last year? You're not alone. The global music industry surpassed 4 trillion streams in 2023, a new single-year record, Luminate’s 2023 Year-End Report found. Global streams were ...

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 ...

Taylor Swift made up 1.7% of the entire U.S. recorded-music market in 2023, according to the year-end report from Luminate, the industry data partner formerly known as SoundScan. The news does not ...

“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 ...

2023 had it all when it came to music: record-breaking tours, unique songwriting and new artists on the rise. The Root’s senior writer Candace McDuffie and freelance music writer and critic Maura ...

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 ...

Streaming powered recorded music revenue to $17.1 billion in 2023, the highest topline number the Recording Industry Association of America has registered in its annual report and a surge of 8 percent ...

Sometimes it takes a while for country songs to be classics, with their impact not felt for years after the song is first released. These four country songs came out in 2023, but it is already clear ...

One of the great things about streaming is that it provides you a seemingly endless amount of content that you can listen to all within a specific platform, but how much of that content do you take ...

However, the news arrives amid hundreds of layoffs at major music companies — totaling more than a thousand at Universal and Warner Music Groups, with more expected — concerns over AI, and efforts ...

welcome to the inaugural Jazz Music Awards, celebrating innovation, creativity, and freedom. (lively drumbeat continues) (moves to upbeat jazz music) (audience applauding) Please welcome three-time ...