Kendrick Lamar proved that he was a rapper, not like any other. Beyoncé and Shaboozey blurred the color lines in country music, and Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish and Sabrina Carpenter gave us pop diva ...

From a scathing diss track-turned-international banger to a duet featuring two pop queens to an R&B groove bursting with '90s nostalgia, THR’s music editor picks his favorite bops of the year. By ...

See The FADER's top 50 albums of 2024. There is a great run of four songs in the middle of this list. It comprises a blissful track from Japanese experimentalist Hakushi Hasegawa, a burst of blown-out ...

From Charli XCX giving us a "Brat" summer to Shaboozey getting us to hand clap along to "A Bar Song (Tipsy)," much liveliness reigned in music in 2024. Even a couple of newcomers – Benson Boone and ...

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 ...

The year in hip-hop saw the reinvention of the diss track, with “Not Like Us” entering the musical canon as a bonafide hit. But the year wasn’t all rap beef; the rap world delivered a variety of ...

Continuing on with list season, we’re pivoting our focus to the best cover songs of the year. We opted to limit the ranking to one entry per project, as something like Thanks to I Saw the TV Glow, ...

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If you’re like a lot of us, this past year might be one you’re not unhappy to see go. (Maybe you’d even like to see the swinging door slap 2024’s ass on the way out.) But then, also like some of us, ...