I dove into the scary world of streaming bundles, and now Dolly Parton talks to me while I walk.
Everyone from Beyonce to Dua Lipa has an album out this year. So why are the charts dominated by male country and rap?
The musician is packing arenas and performing on The Tonight Show.
In recent months, he’s worked with the likes of everyone from Beyoncé to Taylor Swift to Morgan Wallen.
Her new album is a joyous, anxious ode to envy among her fellow pop stars.
The fight over Billboard rankings just proves we live in an era of stanufactured drama.
The government filed a lawsuit to break up Ticketmaster’s parent company.
Albums are too, and it has everything to do with our anxious relationship to technology.
“Hind’s Hall” was electrifying because it was so unexpected.
Eurovision doesn’t want to be about Israel-Palestine, but amid protests and boycotts, it might not have a choice.
The rappers accused one another of abusing women, but weaponizing Me Too isn’t the same as standing up for women.
Politics on Eurovision isn’t new. It’s been part of it almost from the start.
Is the massive backlash against the former child star justified?
The Tortured Poets Department sees Swift tormented by her boyfriends, her haters, and even her fans.
The Tortured Poets Department and the broken way we talk about pop music.
It seems like every musician is being labeled an “industry plant” — does it actually mean anything?
Coverage and analysis of the global superstar’s eighth studio album.
Country music uses the West as a synecdoche for America. Beyoncé is here to disrupt that.
A music scholar explains why hell hath no fury like a country diva.
Her new album seems to have roots in her reception at the 2016 CMA Awards, but the country music establishment can’t stop Beyoncé.
A century of history of Black country music, explained by Alice Randall.
A new kind of masculinity is dominating music — leaving little room for yesterday’s pop idol.
The astrological phenomenon namechecked in new songs from Ariana Grande, Kacey Musgraves, and SZA, explained.
Why Taylor Swift, Drake, and Bad Bunny have been muted on TikTok dance videos.
The multiplatinum singer’s Grammys performance has brought out songwriting “experts” online.
Put some respect on Usher’s name.
Britney was too out of control. Taylor is too in control. What now?
They’re emblematic of how the awards have failed Black artists.
The beef between these queens of rap is a lesson in toxic stan culture and misogynoir.
Swift represents a constituency they’re losing big time: Young women.
The concert documentary shows some people still try to say no to Beyoncé! Weird!
Young Vermonters are, for maybe the first time ever, at the precipice of culture thanks to songwriter Noah Kahan.
She’s preserving herself at an unprecedented echelon of fame.
Jann Wenner, Drew Barrymore, Ashton Kutcher, and what happens when privilege distorts reality.
“After the Trump years, people’s biases were on full display,” she told the Los Angeles Times.
Olivia Rodrigo’s Disney kid backstory is key to her music’s fury.
Fans are creating new concert traditions for a new age.
Right-wing Billboard breakout Oliver Anthony and the conservative country boom, explained.
Sorry, Swifties, Scooter Braun probably isn’t about to be arrested.