The annual highest-paid dead musicians is out for 2025
Sometimes, the best thing you can do for your career is die. Just ask Elvis Presley. Once he kicked in August 1977, he went from Las Vegas has-been to one of the highest-earning
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Before you click on the new Rolling Stone list of the 250 best songs of the millennium so far, read this.
Rolling Stone has released another one of its “greatest” lists, this time focusing on the best songs released so far in the 21st century. This is, of course, clickbait designed to get people
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Of all the things to happen to music this century, this is the most important — and worst
Warning: Spoilers ahead for anyone who hasn’t heard ‘The Ongoing History of New Music’ radio show/podcast series on music in the 21st century. This weekend marks the finale of a 10-part Ongoing History of
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Here are Shazam’s predictions for which newcomers will become stars in 2025
Shazam, the music-identifying app owned by Apple, is spending the week revealing something they call FastForward 2025, lists of artists who data suggests will become big over the next over the next 12
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Are these the 40 best guitar riffs of all time?
Everyone loves music lists because everyone loves to argue over them. On New Year’s Eve, uDiscoverMusic (which is published by Universal Music Group, the largest of the major labels) dropped its ranking of
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There’s a lot of money in having a hit Christmas song. Let’s go through some of them.
If you manage to have a Christmas song that becomes an evergreen staple, you stand to make a nice chunk of money each year. Hypebot has put together this analysis of what some
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The numbers are in: The biggest-selling rock albums of 2024
Now that we’re approaching the end of 2024, the year-end lists are coming fast. This one goes through the biggest-selling rock albums of the year. Although sales are what they used to be
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A Canadian rock band made this 10 ten list of the “most arousing songs”
Listen to music to get into the mood? A digital PR company wanted to find out, so they went through 750 songs (sounds like a small sample, but whatever) and found the tracks
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Which artists have been deepfaked the most? Here’s a list.
The enshitification of the internet continues as people insist on flooding the zone with crap like deepfake videos. It’s getting harder and harder to tell which videos are real and which are fake.
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Are these the most hated Christmas songs of all time?
We’re in the thick of Christmas music season, something that seems to have started sometime in October. It’s also time to make a list of the Christmas songs that grate on the nerves.
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Here’s a new way of calculating the 100 best-ever rock albums
Lists are fun, but when it comes to compiling something like the 100 best-ever rock albums, once it’s been done, things become canon and it’s rare to see much change in the rankings
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