The end of the year traditionally brings with it a flurry of recaps and year-in-reviews from music streaming services. After all, whichever service you use, it's been carefully logging all your ...

For decades, reggae and other styles of Jamaican music have infiltrated popular music worldwide. It’s in the DNA of everything from hip hop to punk to electronic music to reggaeton to Afrobeats and ...

These songs are selected for their content, sheer appeal, impact, and commercial success in Nigeria After an exciting year filled with glitz and glamor in which new acts rubbed shoulders with ...

I’ve never been particularly strategic about listening to new music; I tend to pursue it in arbitrary bursts or to let it float into my life in whichever way it can. I’m not even sure I could impose ...

Tunes that hit the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, album cuts that were better than the promoted singles and a piano ballad that'll have you in your feelings were among the year's highlights.

Bad Bunny's smash "Titi Me Preguntó" has unsurprisingly dominated a number of year-end lists, including round-ups from Esquire, Pitchfork, and Time. The tune marks Benito Martinez Ocasio's first solo ...

Google released a list of the most-searched terms of the year. Google recently released a list of its most "trending" searches of 2022, split up into categories like movies, games, "Who Is?" questions ...

The year 2022 was a big one for Jersey artists on the vanguard. Bandmanrill of Newark became the face of the new Jersey Drill hip-hop movement, Nicki Minaj joined Hackensack’s Coi Leray on her ...

Sleigh bells ring — are you listening? The holidays are upon us once again and as usual, lots of artists have recorded new holiday songs, many covers but also some original creations to. We’ve ...

Ivorian rapper Didi B’s ‘En Haut’ blends trap, coupé-décalé, and call-and-response. With tempered vocals from JR, Didi B reels off braggadocio lyrics targeting his perceived foes. ‘En Haut’ employs ...

Back then it was Lolita, now it’s coquette. The revival of Tumblr era culture and fashion — otherwise known as “Tumblrcore” or “2014core” — has been on the rise for the past couple of years, but the ...