If you were hoping for the pop madness of 2024 to slow down and start making sense: good luck, babe! Because there has never, ever, been a pop year like the hot-not-pretty mess that was 2024. Week to ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. The defining songs of 2024 ran the gamut in every conceivable way: from vicious diss tracks to sapphic ...

December 4, 2024 • 2024 was a year of breakthroughs, with new stars storming the top of the charts and artists across genres making modern classics. NPR Music's list of best songs of the year has ...

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, ...

Notice anything unusual about this year's top hits? Yes, more than half of them are from last year. In 2024, there were 13 songs released that year in the Hitmakers final Top 25, as tallied by our ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google Kendrick Lamar proved that he was a rapper, not like any other. Beyoncé and Shaboozey blurred the color lines in ...

A music business economist recently told Music Radar that in 2024 more music is released in a single day than was released in all of 1989, so it took me extra long to narrow down my faves this year.

The year in hip-hop saw the reinvention of the diss track, with “Not Like Us” entering the musical canon as a bonafide hit. But the year wasn’t all rap beef; the rap world delivered a variety of ...

Notice anything unusual about this year’s top hits? Yes, more than half of them are from last year. What’s going on? Sure, factors like release schedules, timing (a song that was already charting in ...

A playlist of 103 songs from our three critics’ lists to experience however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz Here at The Amplifier, we like to keep our playlists relatively brief, like bite-sized musical ...

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 ...

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.