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 ...

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 ...

Conan Gray, JADE, Remi Wolf and many more served up pop tracks that should have crossed over this year. By Jason Lipshutz Editor In 2024, pop music was defined by a combination of A-list releases — ...

The music in 2024 saw industry heavyweights moving with breakout stars, expanding the music scene in ways we hadn’t seen since the COVID-19 pandemic. Stabilized in a booming concert economy, streaming ...

Sabrina Carpenter appears at the Time100 Next event in New York on Oct. 9, 2024, left, Billie Eilish appears at the 66th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 4, 2024, center, and Taylor Swift ...

2024 was pure chaos, but in the best way, especially for the chronically online. Screens were buzzing nonstop as the world jumped from one jaw-dropping moment to the next. We saw artists testing new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Regina Kim covers Korean and Asian American entertainment. Perhaps one of the most beautiful things about Korean popular music ...

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 ...