Physical media showed strong signs of life last year. The 2021 RIAA Music Industry Data confirms that vinyl and CDs are going nowhere but up. Americans purchased how many new records in 2021? 40 ...

2021 has been a difficult year. That’s true. But there are reasons to be cheerful as we look toward 2022. One main reason is of all years, 2021 was a banner year for music. I don’t mean exclusively ...

What is Dolby Atmos? For a deep dive into the technology, I recommend you take a stroll through our no-stones-left-unturned Dolby Atmos explainer, but here’s the short version: It’s an advanced form ...

So, 2021 wasn’t quite the “post-pandemic” return to normal we’d all hoped for. But once again, music carried us through, and not even ever-mutating variants could stop incredible artists from ...

"I have always strived for my music to communicate messages of empowerment," said Christina Aguilera in her acceptance speech after performing a medley of her songs She's a music icon, baby! On ...

In 2020, people were using music to cope—an uptick in streaming numbers for new age and ambient artists suggested listeners turned to soothing sounds to comfort them through the worry and isolation ...

Users of the Google-owned music streaming service can now listen to personalized playlists and share their music stats from this year. Abrar's interests include phones, streaming, autonomous vehicles, ...

Well, we made it through another year. Even if it's only thanks to a technicality — a barely-there, hanging-by-a-thread type of completion — we made it. In 2021, we were more isolated than ever, ...

As 2021 comes to a close, music giants like Billboard, Spotify, Apple Music, iHeartRadio and more are releasing their lists for the most-listened and best-selling songs and albums of the year, 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 ...

Through Latin music, we are able to see the true range of the Latinx identity — the range of music that this genre encompasses spans multiple languages, cultures, and experiences in a way that no ...

This year, many of the books we loved most used music as a lens through which to examine broader issues of politics, history, and identity — whether it was the story of capitalist circulation as heard ...