We’re at the end of the year, which means a swarm of personalized “year in review” lists from the apps and platforms you use the most. One of the first up is the Apple Music streaming service. But ...

This is more of a "Best for Mi" list. Represented here are my belief that strings make everything better; my tendency to listen to music that gives me '70s, '80s & '90s sounds; the fact that I'll play ...

In 2020, Google’s streaming service offered a “Year in Review” playlist, while a handful of users got an email with top stats. YouTube Music’s 2021 Recap is much more extensive than previous Google ...

Dear music-scribe mayors who are not the mayor, I wish we could go another dozen rounds to dig into all the fascinating stuff that’s come up this week. I’m sure in many ways we will, in many other ...

Just three years after changing its name from Musical.ly, TikTok has become one of the most important tools for musicians to find and grow their audience. Many of this year’s biggest hits—”Drivers ...

The sound of pop music shifted quickly and unpredictably this year: In 2021, ’90s club music made a euphoric return, an Afrobeats song cracked the Billboard Top 10, and hyperpop consolidated while a ...

BTS performed "My Universe" with Coldplay and will also sing their hit song "Butter" at the 2021 AMAs Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

2021's video game releases offered a host of incredible scores that have been the soundtracks not just to our experiences in-game, but have stuck with us long after visiting this year's crop of ...

Back in January, dance music was still in a deep funk: Clubs remained shuttered, the prospect for summer festivals was iffy, and everyone was burned out on livestreams. But then, miraculously—and ...

“Too much pain,” Young M.A. offers on her second LP, “could barely notice the beauty in things.” Not only did these albums provide comfort and commiseration, they also taught me new ways to listen, to ...

Some of my earliest memories involve repeatedly slamming a sticky forefinger onto the Rewind and Play buttons of a two-tone Fisher-Price cassette player. Long before I was able to respond to music as ...