Take a look at the TikTok Charts for 2021 – which music was most popular and who debuted this year. TikTok has continued its dominant growth as the favored social media platform for the ...

“Too much pain,” Young M.A. offers on her second LP, “could barely notice the beauty in things.” Not only did these albums provide comfort and commiseration, they also taught me new ways to listen, to ...

In 2021, revenues were up 23% overall over the $12.1 billion clocked in 2020. By Dan Rys Recorded-music revenues in the United States reached $15 billion at retail in 2021, according to the RIAA’s ...

Physical media showed strong signs of life last year. The 2021 RIAA Music Industry Data confirms that vinyl and CDs are going nowhere but up. Americans purchased how many new records in 2021? 40 ...

Spotify was the largest music streaming service in the world as of the second quarter of 2021 with a market share of 31 percent, with Apple Music in second place at 15 percent, and Amazon Music and ...

The world's biggest label closed out 2021 with over $5B in streaming revenue. By Ed Christman The Universal Music Group’s revenue grew by more than 1 billion euros in 2021 to 8.5 billion euros ($10.1 ...

In a year saturated with excellent releases — luminous false starts idling in the shadow of this never-ending global tragedy — projects that maximized ferality won me over. Identifying and rejecting ...