“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 ...

On today's episode of The Excerpt podcast: It would be hard to argue that 2023’s biggest name in music wasn’t Taylor Swift. She was recently named Time magazine’s Person of the Year and was Spotify’s ...

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 ...

While 2022 may have been a year completely dominated by a certain sad summer reggaeton album, 2023 drew its power from a set of familiar sounds that took on new prominence: tubas, accordions and a ...

Here’s a little New Year's gift to you: A front-row seat to a thrilling and diverse selection of world music albums from 2023. We sampled songs from some of the best singer-songwriters around the ...

Global on-demand music streams spiked more than 22 percent during 2023 to top four trillion, newly released data has revealed. This record-high stream count, referring particularly to audio plays on ...

The year saw K-pop companies making mega moves on a global scale, while the catalog market remained hot. By Glenn Peoples K-pop’s growth has reshaped the music business and given financial fuel to ...

Streaming and physical sales, led by vinyl, drive 11% growth in music copyright value, according to the annual report from Will Page. By Glenn Peoples The value of global music copyright reached $45.5 ...

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 ...

The IFPI Global Music Report has long been viewed as the definitive snapshot of the international music industry’s health (or otherwise). After all, the global recorded music industry trade body’s ...