What were the most played songs on rock radio in 2024? You've probably already seen Loudwire's top rock and metal songs of 2024, but the artists that reign rock radio are sometimes a bit different ...

History doesn't repeat, but its guitars sure do chime. However, to call it a down year for shoegaze would require strenuous amounts of cynicism and incuriosity. Every week, I felt like I stumbled into ...

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 ...

From a scathing diss track-turned-international banger to a duet featuring two pop queens to an R&B groove bursting with '90s nostalgia, THR’s music editor picks his favorite bops of the year. By ...

Kendrick Lamar proved that he was a rapper, not like any other. Beyoncé and Shaboozey blurred the color lines in country music, and Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish and Sabrina Carpenter gave us pop diva ...

This is a transcript of a special episode of Hit Parade. To hear the whole episode, join Slate Plus. Chris Molanphy: Hey, everybody—this is Chris Molanphy, host of Hit Parade, Slate’s podcast of pop ...

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 ...

An underground Boston rap supergroup. A klezmer clarinetist. A Berklee band on the rise. An unknown young R&B singer. One of the most popular singers in the nation. The year’s best local albums are a ...