Nostalgia will always be the original it girl. For decades, artists across many genres have reached back to previous time periods for creative inspiration. That stretch has only elongated in recent ...

The sheer volume of content uploaded to YouTube is staggering to consider, and there’s no way one person could ever watch it all. Some videos, though, have emerged as the most popular on the service ...

This year introduced a number of stylish and experimental artists from the red carpets to street style. But, the vibrant looks of today’s R&B, hip hop and rap stars in music videos from the start of ...

January 2, 2024 • Our resident Viking, Lars Gotrich, connects epic Japanese storytelling, soul-sampling powerviolence, ambient rap and beautiful noise through thematic webs of history and memory.

Let’s get this out of the way: Taylor Swift dominated the year in music, and it wasn’t even close. Four-year-old songs of hers topped the charts. She sold physical albums at a head-spinning rate. Her ...

Welcome back to our yearly exploration of the best underground and lesser-known music videos of the year. If it got less than a million plays on YouTube, it was eligible for consideration. Let’s dive ...

YouTube has revealed which music videos from the past year were the most popular in Korea! With the year winding to a close, YouTube has now released its list of the 10 most-watched music videos of ...

Simply listening to music, playing games, and even working out isn’t enough — we need to track and compare our history on an annual or even seasonal basis. Spotify Wrapped has imposed a new tradition ...

“Everything is under control,” Meshell Ndegeocello sings, again and again, throughout “Call the Tune,” a haunted hymn amidst the collection of mystical prayers, jazz vamps, and folk musings that ...

Is the sun finally setting on Anglo music’s global hegemony? The question has been timely for the last few years, but 2023 felt like a more permanent breakthrough for Spanish-language pop. Consider, ...