Released on October 20, 1986, and produced by the vaunted Rick Rubin, who’d signed the band to his label Def Jam, Reign In ...

Benjamin Tod is back at it again with a beautifully tragic new record. Titled Vengeance & Grace, Tod’s 12th studio album – and fifth of his career without former band Lost Dog Street Band – features ...

The first of the important year-end music industry data reports have come out for 2025, from Luminate Data and Chartmetric. Luminate’s report confirms that growth in music streaming in the U.S. is ...

Sjava has confirmed the upcoming release of Inkanyezi Nezinkanyezi, the closing instalment of his acclaimed three-part album series The singer described the project as an emotional and spiritual ...

Many of the best albums from the first half of the 2020s have similar origin stories. There are two basic plot lines you'll see repeatedly on this list, the most common of which is the COVID pandemic, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl wraps 2025 as the bestselling ...

2025 was a good year for music across all genres. Though there haven’t been many outstanding projects in the decade so far, the year definitely revived the art of cohesive albums and extended plays ...

2025 wasn’t a one-sound year; it was a many-voices year in Hip-Hop albums, where street rap, art rap, introspection and legacy all shared the same space. The Big Picture. This was the year Hip-Hop ...

People would have laughed and rolled their eyes if the 1977 movie smash “Star Wars” had even suggested that — one day in the future, in a galaxy far, far away — hit records would be created entirely ...

Kendrick Lamar has secured another major milestone as GNX is officially the most-streamed rap album on Spotify in 2025. The project amassed 2.98 billion streams, outperforming the next-closest release ...

Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy has unveiled his annual Top 10 of 2025 for albums, film and TV while also paying tribute to some influential musicians and figures we lost throughout the year. Not ...