Find out how Kendrick Lamar, Cardi B, JAY-Z, Taylor Swift and more stack up in a year packed with big releases and bigger moments. DAMN. it was a good year for music. It didn’t always feel that way, ...

Check out some of the evening's most heartwarming, most unexpected and most downright embarrassing moments that will have everybody talking after the show. This year's American Music Awards featured ...

A playlist featuring Kendrick Lamar, SZA and more, to close out 2017. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson shares a list of notable songs from the past year. It's almost the end of the year, and even though ...

2017 was an eventful year, to put it mildly—and its music was no exception. In a time defined by unpredictability, artists stepped up with their own expressions, embracing the beauty of life and ...

Too few people appreciate the role music plays in society, the way it surrounds us. Music isn’t something that we can simply enjoy one day and ignore the next. It is embedded in who we are and it ...

Oh what a night the 2017 American Music Awards turned out to be. From powerhouse singers Pink and Kelly Clarkson kicking off the show with a duet of R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts,” to Pink later ...

The fact that more songs and albums were streamed than ever before in 2017 shouldn’t come as a surprise. Instead, the two big takeaways from Nielsen’s year-end report are just how much streaming ...

Something about music changed this year. There was a shift—not seismic, but noticeable—in what we listen to. Radio turned their back on tried-and-true stars, opening arms instead to rappers raised on ...

In spite of the back seat classical music often takes in America in terms of sales figures and sheer visibility, there's nothing wrong with the music itself. This list of 10 albums is a testament to ...

The future that liberals want currently costs $30 and is located behind a ravaged warehouse door in downtown Los Angeles. Here, in a cluster of glass-scattered, splinter-strewn rooms called Rage ...

For the first time ever, R&B/hip-hop has surpassed rock to become the biggest music genre in the U.S. in terms of total consumption, according to Nielsen Music's 2017 year-end report. Eight of the 10 ...

The year in local music was one of unlikely debuts, sophomore album triumphs, long awaited comebacks and everything in between. The best of Memphis music 2017 came in a variety of different forms – ...