English may still rule the pop charts, but its grip is loosening. New data from Spotify shows its Global Top 50 featured songs in 16 languages last year—more than twice the count in 2020—with Spanish, ...

Spotify said Brazilian Funk was the fastest-growing genre in the world, with audiences up by 36%. K-Pop saw a 31% increase, ...

Billboard's 2026 Global Power Players list is revealed, featuring the music industry's top executives driving success outside the U.S.

Arijit Singh was the one sure bet in a stagnating Hindi film music scene. Will his retirement from playback singing deepen the creative crisis?

Released December 11, 2025, the dance forward singleperformed in Egyptian Arabiccontinues to chart across radio and ...

Arab superstar Mohamed Ramadan, who is Egypt's first artist to perform at Coachella, has signed with WME for worldwide ...

American figure skater Alysa Liu won an Olympic gold medal skating to Donna Summer's version of "MacArthur Park." The song was written by Oklahoma native Jimmy Webb in the 1960s and has been covered ...

Welcome to New Music Friday, NPR Music's podcast dedicated to sharing the best albums out each week. We listen to dozens of new releases in advance, identify the ones we think you need to hear, and ...

Taylor Swift scored the biggest-selling album of 2025, while KPop stars dominated the year's biggest songs, new industry figures show. Swift's 12th studio album The Life of a Showgirl was the most ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...