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

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The year 2020 was an odd one for the world, but the year certainly had plenty of great music. These four country songs all came out in 2020 and have sadly already been forgotten, even though they are ...

Despite some theological differences, both religious traditions look to her as an inspiration for cultivating compassion and hope, says scholar Zeyneb Sayılgan ...

Until recently, Arab music had been used by American and European studios and popular media in a way that “was very orientalist,” playing on racist tropes, according to writer and music journalist ...

Nothing unites people like good music and a common cause. Every year, we release the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) which ranks countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, ...

Design by Yassmine El-Rewini. Buy this photo. 1. “I Know the End,” Phoebe Bridgers Phoebe Bridgers’s “I Know The End” is a Trojan Horse of a song: What starts out as a trademark Bridgers track — ...

Spotify Wrapped has become a really popular way to look back at all your most listened to artists, albums, songs, and more. Even though your Wrapped 2021 won’t become available until the end of the ...

It’s fitting that a song about doing it yourself is the only track in Rolling Stone‘s year-end Top 50 chart to be penned by a single writer. The song in question, Tones and I‘s “Dance Monkey,” was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Sales of songs may have been down once again in the U.S. in 2020, ...