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Earlier this year, Bad Bunny emphatically rejected rumors that he was about to release a new song with Justin Bieber. “That’s fake,” he told TIME in an interview for a cover story on his meteoric rise ...

Magsamen is the Founder and Director of the International Arts + Mind Lab Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics at Johns Hopkins University. She is the co-author with Ivy Ross of Your Brain on Art: How ...

Total streaming revenues rose 11.5% in 2022, bringing the segment's share of the overall music market to 67%. By Richard Smirke Global music sales rose for the eighth consecutive year in 2022, with ...

Earlier this week, triple j revealed that 23 acts made their Hottest 100 debut with the 2022 countdown, and that 57 songs were from Australian artists. Six songs that featured in the 2022 countdown ...

In a massive year for artists like Taylor Swift and Harry Styles the unquestioned biggest pop star of 2022 was Bad Bunny. The year-end accolades say it all. He was Billboard's top artist of the year ...

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 ...

Afropop — a catch-all term casting a wide net over the diverse musical approaches originating and dominating from Africa — has long been a center of the Black diasporic experience, from which so much ...

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 ...

Remembering Loretta Lynn, Meat Loaf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Pharoah Sanders, Christine McVie, Olivia Newton-John, Coolio, Gal Costa, Lata Mangeshkar, George Crumb, Vangelis, Ronnie Spector, DJ Kay Slay, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Fresh takes on Mozart, Dvorak and Debussy, and newer works by Dewa Alit, Kate Soper and Caroline Shaw are among our favorite recordings this year.

The best country albums of 2022 have something in common: they were made with little regard for commercial success or record sales. In some cases that's because the artist didn't have the ...