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).” ...

However, you listened to music this year, streaming on an app or the old fashioned way on the radio, 2024 was a year that saw breakthrough artists, chart topping hits and a return of some top tier ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Teddy Swims makes history on this week’s Hot 100: “Lose Control,” the singer-songwriter’s soulful pop-rock anthem, spends its 92nd ...

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.

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 ...

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars' Die With A Smile, released in August 2024, broke the Spotify record for the fastest song to reach 1 ...

Kendrick Lamar was named the Billboard Hot 100‘s top-charting artist of 2024 with the most No. 1 hits of the year. ChartData confirmed that the pgLang artist logged a total of three chart-toppers last ...

In an extraordinary display of musical dominance, Kendrick Lamar has emerged as 2024’s definitive chart leader, securing more Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits than any contemporary artist. This ...