Not too far back, American Songwriter announced the category winners of the 2024 Song Contest. With genre entries ranging from Americana to Latin Music, the acclaimed panel of judges had a lot of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Teddy Swims’s "Lose Control" breaks Billboard’s all-time record for ...

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 ...

The streamer previously named "Espresso" the top song with over 1.6 billion listens Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has ...

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.

2024 was an unmatched year for pop music. From “Cowboy Carter” to “Brat” and “Espresso” to “Not Like Us,” Page Six ranked the releases that kept us grooving all year long. See our list of the five ...

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).” ...

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, ...

In 2024, some songs stood out for their bold experimentation, infectious melodies, pulsating productions, and the star power behind them. As the industry grappled to find a successor to the ...

With so many constant releases in Latin music, it can sometimes feel hard to keep up — but lots of songs rose from the din and stood out this year. Some of the best ones were new inventions (take, for ...

In December 2024, Gene Simmons opined, quite matter-of-factly, that rock was dead. The artists comprising our Top 30 Rock Songs of 2024 would like a word. As the year draws to a close, UCR looks back ...