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A playlist of 103 songs from our three critics’ lists to experience however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz Here at The Amplifier, we like to keep our playlists relatively brief, like bite-sized musical ...

For at least a decade now – since Billboard started counting music streams in its chart calculations in 2013, and probably before – the sound of pop music has been sharply bifurcated between the ...

A side effect of the way we listen to music in the streaming era is that it's harder than ever for new stars to break through. Or it was until 2024, anyway. This year, it felt like a page turned, the ...

The post The 2024 K-Pop Yearbook appeared first on Consequence. In 2023, I absolutely loved launching the K-Pop Yearbook, celebrating a year in the genre with superlative-style accolades. Putting ...

And just like that another year has come and gone. What began as 365 empty white squares on the calendar has quickly become 366 days full of memories. In the running world, 2024 marked the arrival of ...

Spotify's Playlist in a Bottle is a time capsule that users made a year ago, sharing the music that resonated at that time. The feature was made available this week in the Spotify app. Users can save ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to the massive success of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter album and the long-running Billboard hits from country singers such as Zach Bryan and Morgan Wallen in 2024, this year's DJ Earworm United ...

The power of a lasting song is that it breaks free of its origins. Hits should be more than celebrity narratives. By Jon Pareles The megahits of 2024 were inseparable from their back stories. And that ...