"Women led the charge, with 63.4 percent of the U.S. top 100 pop audio streams performed by female artists," highlights a Luminate report for 2024.

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 held the previous record . If you streamed a ...

SZA also reflected on her unexpected rise to superstardom: “They be like, ‘That’s what you signed up for,’ and then I’m like, ‘I didn’t even know what I was signing up for, actually.’ I just made a ...

Time and time again Bad Bunny has proven that he's strongest creatively when he anchors himself to the island and if DeBÍ ...

Lil Baby's WHAM brings Young Thug's first verse since incarceration and marks a triumphant return to Atlanta's hip-hop scene.

Jelly Roll emulated Ozzy Osbourne in this touching track to the country star's wife on his tenth album, 'Beautifully Broken.' ...

Legendary rap and hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco is joining the faculty as Johns Hopkins University as a visiting professor, the Chicago rapper announced Wednesday. Fiasco will join JHU’s Peabody ...

Vince Staples gets deeply personal on Dark Times, his most introspective album since 2015’s Summertime ’06. With a slower, atmospheric production style influenced by jazz, the album explores past ...

Everyone knows that one of the most important aspects of a party is having great music that can get people on the dance floor. Hip-hop's inception came from house parties hosted in the Bronx in ...

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Statewide, output of professionally recorded hip-hop records may be at an all-time high, even amongst artists who primarily share music on SoundCloud. Maybe because of studios like The Sound Box ...

2024 has been filled with hip-hop highlights. While the culture experiences celebratory moments, the rap world has also been shaken multiple times due to the deaths of members of the hip-hop ...