AMERICANA IS BINGE-WORTHY Americana has had a terrific couple of years, and it appears poised to grow in 2025. How has this rootsy sound taken root? Part of the answer lies in some canny placements on red-hot TV shows. …Read moreTOP 50: HAPPY NEW CHART The first #1 chart showing of the new year belongs to SZA, while Kendrick Lamar takes the #2 spot on the HITS Top 50. …Read moreNEAR TRUTHS: A TOUR OF '24 (PART THREE) I.B. surveys the live space in this, the third installment of his 2024 retrospective. Tickets are going fast. …Read moreNEAR TRUTHS: A TOUR OF '24 (PART TWO) In the second installment of this sprawling assessment of the year, I.B. looks at indie successes, pubbery gains, DSP evolution and Nashville changes. …Read moreNEAR TRUTHS: A TOUR OF '24 (PART ONE) I.B. Bad on big changes at the labels, breakthrough acts, Grammy favorites and more. …Read moreTIKTOK'S OLE OBERMANN: THE HITS INTERVIEW Ole Obermann, global head of Music Business Development for TikTok, tells our own Craig Marks that he’s been way too busy over the past six months to let the company’s existential uncertainty weigh on him. Obermann has had his own fires to put out. …Read more |
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COUNTRY'S NEWEST DISRUPTOR
Three chords and some truth you may not be ready for.
AI IS ALREADY EATING YOUR LUNCH
The kids can tell the difference... for now.
WHO'S BUYING THE DRINKS?
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NOW WHAT?
We have no fucking idea.
COUNTRY'S NEWEST DISRUPTOR
Three chords and some truth you may not be ready for.
AI IS ALREADY EATING YOUR LUNCH
The kids can tell the difference... for now.
WHO'S BUYING THE DRINKS?
That's what we'd like to know.
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Bad Bunny surprised fans Sunday morning with the early release of his sixth LP, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.
Americana has had a terrific couple of years, and it appears poised to grow in 2025. How has this rootsy sound taken root? Part of the answer lies in some canny placements on red-hot TV shows.
Luke Combs, Fall Out Boy and the Dave Matthews Band will headline an eclectic bill as part of the 2025 Boston Calling festival, which will be held 5/23-25 at the Harvard Athletic Complex.
Emilia Pérez, Baby Reindeer, Hacks and The Brutalist were among the big winners Sunday night at the first awards show of 2025. Wicked, however, was largely snubbed.
Elton John could score his ninth #1 on the Official U.K. Album Chart with Diamonds, while Gracie Abrams is locked in a tight battle for the top of the Singles tally with ROSÉ and Bruno Mars.
Brenton Wood, who scored enduring hits with his 1967 singles “The Oogum Boogum Song” and “Gimme Little Sign,” died on 1/3 at his home in Moreno Valley, California. He was 83.
The first #1 chart showing of the new year belongs to SZA, while Kendrick Lamar takes the #2 spot on the HITS Top 50.
Antone's, on Sixth Street in Austin, has long been a sanctuary for the blues. Its 50-year mission to further the genre will be celebrated with a host of anniversary releases and events in 2025.
Brandon Silverstein's S10 and his Avex USA Publishing are toasting three Top 20s on Mediabase's year-end Top 40 radio chart, led by Tate McRae's "Greedy" at #1, Doja Cat’s “Agora Hills" at #5 and Tommy Richman’s "MILLION DOLLAR BABY" at #16.
Interscope wrapped up 2024 firing on all cylinders, with pgLang’s Kendrick Lamar and Darkroom’s Billie Eilish—both of whom go into Grammy night with mondo noms—scoring the most-streamed songs on...
Beyoncé’s halftime performance during the Baltimore Ravens-Houston Texans Christmas Day game on Netflix drew an audience of 27m, surpassing the number of viewers for either game streamed by the platform on 12/25.
Ole Obermann, global head of Music Business Development for TikTok, tells our own Craig Marks that he’s been way too busy over the past six months to let the company’s existential uncertainty weigh on him. Obermann has had his own fires to put out.
When Steely Dan was nominated for Album of the Year in 2000 for its reunion LP Two Against Nature, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker weren’t strangers to the Grammys, but they weren’t exactly Recording Academy darlings, either.
Jimmy Carter, who served as our 39th president and went on to spend decades as an activist for social justice, died Sunday at the age of 100.
President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to pause the proposed U.S. ban of TikTok.
On the final day of the year, Morgan Wallen surprised fans with "Smile," continuing in the vein of such recent smashes as...
Billie Eilish soared into 2025 with Spotify’s most-streamed song of 2024—“BIRDS OF A FEATHER,” which racked up 1.77b globally.
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