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2024 was an unmatched year for pop music. From “Cowboy Carter” to “Brat” and “Espresso” to “Not Like Us,” Page Six ranked the releases that kept us grooving all year long. See our list of the five ...

With 2024 firmly in the rearview, we’re finishing up our recap with a couple of genre lists. Last week, we ranked the best rap albums of the year. Today, we’ve assembled a comprehensive list of our ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Benjamin is a New York-based writer covering global pop music. ROSÉ performs "APT." live with Bruno Mars at the 2024 MAMA ...

The music in 2024 saw industry heavyweights moving with breakout stars, expanding the music scene in ways we hadn’t seen since the COVID-19 pandemic. Stabilized in a booming concert economy, streaming ...

If you’re like a lot of us, this past year might be one you’re not unhappy to see go. (Maybe you’d even like to see the swinging door slap 2024’s ass on the way out.) But then, also like some of us, ...

Notice anything unusual about this year's top hits? Yes, more than half of them are from last year. In 2024, there were 13 songs released that year in the Hitmakers final Top 25, as tallied by our ...

Back in July, Luminate, which provides chart data for Billboard, shared the most-streamed songs of the year so far. In the top ten, only three songs were actually released in 2025, while the rest of ...

From Taylor Swift closing out her Eras Tour with a revival of her touring anthem “Long Live” to Bruce Springsteen devoting much of his 2024 setlist to the souls of the departed, live music stirred us ...

For Latin music, 2024 was yet another year of significant expansion — both on the commercial front, and in the stylistic detours and avant-garde tendencies favored by artists across the Americas.