The first of the important year-end music industry data reports have come out for 2025, from Luminate Data and Chartmetric.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 2025 will go down as the year of Morgan Wallen, not just in country music, but across the board, as Billboard declared him the ...

Few formats drive fan engagement like a great music video. That was true in 2025 and it’ll be true in 2026, too. Looking at Warner Music Group’s top-performing videos of 2025 offers insight into both ...

Each year at NPR Music, we curate two flagship lists: The Best Albums of the Year and The Best Songs of the Year. But there's a lot more recommendations and criticism where those came from. You'll ...

There might not have been an Eras Tour to break billion-dollar records, but 2025 still produced stadium spectacles, innovative arena productions and impressive club performances from a slew of ...

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

From Puerto Rico's global music takeover to the high-profile criminal trial of a hip-hop mogul, 2025 had no shortage of music news. Artists protested across stages and streaming platforms; they ...

A recap of what every publicly traded music company - from streamers to labels to venues and ticketing platforms - earned in ...

The IFPI top 20 biggest-selling artists chart for 2025 is just out, but the list of artists shows a worrying trend globally for rock music.

Celebrating the best of the best K-pop contributions of the past year, the 2025 Hanteo Music Awards will be held on Sunday, ...

To make a list is immediately to begin second-guessing it. This year that’s especially true below the Top 10, in my list of 20 runner-up albums, for which I had double that many candidates I could ...