All but one of Apple Music’s Top 10 most-streamed songs of 2025 weren’t even released this year—a trend that will continue ...

Tom Service ponders how music might make us reconsider our relationship with the planet, from climate change to deforestation ...

Next to the unifying moments that music enabled, the pandemic also showed two basic things to be true: First, it made clear just how easy our access to music is now — it is truly a nearly infinite ...

: [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: In this report, we incorrectly say that the Hatsune Miku voice synthesizer is "entirely AI-generated." A version of the software that powers the "vocaloid" singer Hatsune ...

In 1986, the appeal of “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)” was delightfully uncomplicated. The Beastie Boys had turned the simple art of rebelling against authority figures—teachers, ...

Exploring the incredible yet underappreciated work of Colombian composer and experimental pioneer Jacqueline Nova, who ...

The global coronavirus pandemic, when it arrived in our lives five years ago this week, affected the world of music in basically the same way it did everything else. Musicians froze their lives and ...

And second, it proved that effortless access to the glorious archive of recorded music could not compensate for the absence of people creating music in our lives. Looking back five years later, it's ...

In some ways, COVID shrank the distance between musicians and listeners. But then, it also threw nearly everything about the industry into disarray, and for many, things have never been the same. The ...