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
Read MoreShazam, 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
Read MoreEveryone 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
Read MoreIf 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
Read MoreNow 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
Read MoreListen 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
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreWe’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.
Read MoreLists 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
Read MoreDeezer, the Paris-based music streamer collects user data like all the rest of them. The company has just released its list of hot Christmas songs and albums for 2023. Top Christmas songs worldwide:
Read MoreThe album is having a rough time of late. Streaming is turning many people away from listening to whole albums and directing them to playlists filled with individual songs. But the album is
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