2024 was a great year for pop, and that’s reflected in the results for the Uproxx Music Critics Poll for 2024. Charli XCX, Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, and Ariana Grande ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Benjamin is a New York-based writer covering global pop music. ROSÉ performs "APT." live with Bruno Mars at the 2024 MAMA ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the ...

More music, more listeners, no problems. If you streamed a lot more music in 2024 — and in particular, a lot of women pop performers — you are not alone. In the U.S., on-demand audio streams grew at a ...

This year brought us new albums from some of the biggest artists in the world: Ariana Grande, Dua Lipa, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift all put out music that thrilled fans. And yet some of the most ...

Music critics—myself included—have spent much of the past several years bemoaning the decline of capital-“E” Events in music: no new superstars to crown, no more tentpole albums to unify us, no more ...

Once again, K-pop enjoyed a strong sales year in the United States! American music data tracking firm Luminate (formerly Nielsen Music), which supplies the data for the Billboard charts, has released ...

Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Sabrina Carpenter were the most-streamed U.S. pop artists last year, according to Luminate‘s year-end music report for 2024. Swift topped the U.S. On-Demand Audio (ODA) ...

The IFPI has released its year-end Global Album Sales Chart for 2024—and nine of this year’s top 10 spots went to K-pop artists! On February 18 local time, the International Federation of the ...

Thinking back on the biggest cultural moments of 2024, it’s hard to ignore the many African women who were at the center of it all. Over the past decade, global African music has been dominated by ...

What's on your best K-pop songs of 2024 list? Maybe you followed the ongoing girl group renaissance to new music from NMIXX and aespa, with a sprinkle of ILLIT's debut. Maybe you embraced exciting ...