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 ...

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 ...

There isn’t really such a thing as “a quiet year” in Nashville’s music ecosystem, but 2023 was pretty damn busy by just about any measure you choose. We take stock of it in our Year in Music issue, ...

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 ...

Spotify paid the music industry some $9 billion in 2023, according to a statement from the streaming giant, which added that the “figure has nearly tripled over the past six years, and represents a ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

AI tools can emulate famous singers and create entire songs. But some musicians are worried about copyright violations and the impact on their jobs.

In 2023, it was harder than ever to capture the attention of the world with an individual song. With people often looking to the past — creating steaming and social sensations with old material — new ...

I had always hoped to write one of the famed Maximum Rocknroll Scene Reports about my town. But every time I sat down to type out a scene report back in the day, I found myself with little to say ...