The COVID pandemic continued in 2021, making the presentation of live music difficult, and during a spike in infections, nearly impossible. Over the course of the year, fewer albums than usual were ...

Superstar releases, or at least great superstar releases, were in short supply in the first six months of 2021, maybe because a lot of our most reliable earners were waiting for the pandemic to crawl ...

As much as any other year (maybe more), music lovers needed something from the songs and albums of 2021 — to name what was going wrong and to begin sketching the possibilities for how we might ...

No, it was not as surreal or downright terrifying as 2020, but as the omicron variant of COVID-19 rages and case totals again surge as they did this time last year, it may feel as though we’re right ...

We all enter 2021 facing many challenges, and in the scheme of things this one is pretty minor: Advance notice of album release dates is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. The “surprise drop” that ...

No one knew of the impact one Minnesota native could singlehandedly have on the melancholic R&B world when he released his amateur mixtapes to SoundCloud in 2013. Most chalked down the triumph of his ...

We love list season. We really love making lists, and we also really love reading lists made by other music publications, individual critics, and musicians. In the long term, these lists help preserve ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. This article is more than 4 years old. LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY ...

Let’s ignore the fact that our rankings are coming out weeks after 2021 ended. It’s an encore, okay? Instead, let’s focus on the fact that the state’s musical output was tremendous, even beyond our ...

2021 has been a trying year as the pandemic continues to affect the lives of human beings across the planet. It could be said that the saving grace of this year has been the incredible releases of ...

Twenty Twenty-One was another one for the books, that also zoomed by as we tried to get back to normal after the first wave of Covid, and normal fought back and we now seem to be right back where the ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Vinyl records outsold CDs in the U.S. last year for the first time since MRC Data, a music data collection company, ...