Check out a list of the night's winners. The 2021 American Music Awards, hosted by Cardi B, had some of the biggest names in music perform at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles Sunday night. Silk ...

Bad Bunny included “Efecto” on Un Verano Sin Ti, even sampling another artist’s 2021 hit for his original song. Here’s what we know about the meaning of this song (in English) and the song where the ...

2021 is in the rearview, and we’ve already made a list of our our favorite albums of the year, as well as separate lists focused on punk/hardcore/emo/etc, screamo, ska, jazz, rap, the Indie Basement ...

It’s brutal out there, and that’s why, more than ever, we needed the consoling and prodding pleasures of popular music to help everything make sense in here. [Stage direction: taps chest, knowingly.] ...

Isle of Wight, England duo Wet Leg released their debut single “Chaise Longue” via the Domino on June 15, 2021. It was written for fun in a single day by vocalist Rhian Teasdale while she was sitting ...

“family ties” will undoubtedly go down as one of the defining songs of our current musical era. Featuring Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem, two of the most in-vogue rappers, this track represents Keem’s ...

At the close of the 2010s, consumer tastes seemed to shift away from flashy pop stars and formulaic hits, embracing subdued alternative sounds instead. And then, 2020 happened. Driven by pandemic ...

Drake made a change to the lyrics of his 2021 song “Knife Talk” in an apparent response to Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance. On Sunday, Lamar performed a medley of some of his biggest ...

American Songwriter: What made you decide to enter American Songwriter’s Song Contest? Lauryn Marie: I had an assignment in my songwriting class with Victoria Banks at Belmont University to enter a ...

Physical media showed strong signs of life last year. The 2021 RIAA Music Industry Data confirms that vinyl and CDs are going nowhere but up. Americans purchased how many new records in 2021? 40 ...

My latest animated “bar chart race” visualization above (click the arrow to start) shows the format shares of recorded music sales annually from 1973 to 2021 based on new year-end sales data that were ...