The COVID pandemic continued in 2021, making the presentation of live music difficult, and during a spike in infections, nearly impossible. Over the course of the year, fewer albums than usual were ...

I’m sure I listened to more than 1,000 albums in 2021 — nothing unusual there. But that still left probably 10 times that number of releases that I passed over. So I don’t suggest that this year’s ...

Superstar releases, or at least great superstar releases, were in short supply in the first six months of 2021, maybe because a lot of our most reliable earners were waiting for the pandemic to crawl ...

As much as any other year (maybe more), music lovers needed something from the songs and albums of 2021 — to name what was going wrong and to begin sketching the possibilities for how we might ...

2021 has been another difficult year for electronic music, thanks in part (three-quarters, really) to the ongoing global pandemic. More than any other modern genre of music, electronic is deeply ...

No, it was not as surreal or downright terrifying as 2020, but as the omicron variant of COVID-19 rages and case totals again surge as they did this time last year, it may feel as though we’re right ...

No one knew of the impact one Minnesota native could singlehandedly have on the melancholic R&B world when he released his amateur mixtapes to SoundCloud in 2013. Most chalked down the triumph of his ...

We love list season. We really love making lists, and we also really love reading lists made by other music publications, individual critics, and musicians. In the long term, these lists help preserve ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. This article is more than 4 years old. LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY ...

Let’s ignore the fact that our rankings are coming out weeks after 2021 ended. It’s an encore, okay? Instead, let’s focus on the fact that the state’s musical output was tremendous, even beyond our ...

We all enter 2021 facing many challenges, and in the scheme of things this one is pretty minor: Advance notice of album release dates is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. The “surprise drop” that ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Vinyl records outsold CDs in the U.S. last year for the first time since MRC Data, a music data collection company, ...