Now hear this: Sales of recorded music in the U.S. grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2023, with streams accounting for a dominant 84% and vinyl up by double digits again, the RIAA said in its ...
The year saw K-pop companies making mega moves on a global scale, while the catalog market remained hot. By Glenn Peoples K-pop’s growth has reshaped the music business and given financial fuel to ...
“Everything is under control,” Meshell Ndegeocello sings, again and again, throughout “Call the Tune,” a haunted hymn amidst the collection of mystical prayers, jazz vamps, and folk musings that ...
Let’s get this out of the way: Taylor Swift dominated the year in music, and it wasn’t even close. Four-year-old songs of hers topped the charts. She sold physical albums at a head-spinning rate. Her ...
While 2022 may have been a year completely dominated by a certain sad summer reggaeton album, 2023 drew its power from a set of familiar sounds that took on new prominence: tubas, accordions and a ...
Here, we look back at 10 of the top stories in country music in 2023. By Jessica Nicholson As the year draws to a close and the country music business looks toward 2024, it’s time to contemplate the ...
There are years when there are major tours. And then there was 2023. Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Pink and Ed Sheeran stormed stadiums. Are you exhausted? We're exhausted. But in a totally exhilarating way.
"Jaws," Johannes Gutenberg, Britney Spears and one bad Cinderella. In some form or another, they all graced Broadway stages in 2023. It was the year that gifted us a Tony Awards sweep for “Kimberly ...
Taylor Swift made up 1.7% of the entire U.S. recorded-music market in 2023, according to the year-end report from Luminate, the industry data partner formerly known as SoundScan. The news does not ...
Nostalgia will always be the original it girl. For decades, artists across many genres have reached back to previous time periods for creative inspiration. That stretch has only elongated in recent ...
The IFPI Global Music Report has long been viewed as the definitive snapshot of the international music industry’s health (or otherwise). After all, the global recorded music industry trade body’s ...
The Hanteo Music Awards 2023 has unveiled its final lineup! On February 16, Hanteo Global announced that ATEEZ, NCT 127, and NCT DREAM would all be performing at this year’s awards, which will take ...