If you’re like a lot of us, this past year might be one you’re not unhappy to see go. (Maybe you’d even like to see the swinging door slap 2024’s ass on the way out.) But then, also like some of us, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matthew Leimkuehler is a music journalist from Nashville, Tennessee. 2024 may be remembered as the year of “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” ...

Back in July, Luminate, which provides chart data for Billboard, shared the most-streamed songs of the year so far. In the top ten, only three songs were actually released in 2025, while the rest of ...

Trent Reznor's favorite song of 2024 wasn't a rock or metal song, but it was one of the biggest songs of the year. Despite fronting one of the biggest industrial bands of all time, Reznor appreciates ...

More music, more listeners, no problems. The global music industry hit 4.8 trillion streams in 2024, a new single-year record, Luminate’s 2024 Year-End Report found. That’s up 14% from 2023, which ...

Members of Ekko Astral participate in music session.(Courtesy John Lee) The D.C. region has long been a hub of musical innovation, an area where diverse influences collide to create sounds that are as ...

For Latin music, 2024 was yet another year of significant expansion — both on the commercial front, and in the stylistic detours and avant-garde tendencies favored by artists across the Americas.

Some of the best country songs have been released in the last few years. In fact, some of the best country songs came out in 2024. These four songs all came out last year, and are really good, even ...

Let's face it, 2024 was a massive year for metal breaking through to the mainstream. Even without new releases from the likes of Metallica, Slipknot or Iron Maiden, there was a stunningly impressive ...