In 2023, it was harder than ever to capture the attention of the world with an individual song. With people often looking to the past — creating steaming and social sensations with old material — new ...

It's been a stunning year for heavy music, from legends of the game like Metallica and Avenged Sevenfold returning with new studio albums to rising stars like Sleep Token, Spiritbox, Svalbard and ...

It seems I’ve been singing the same refrain ever since 2017, the year of our blessed “Despacito.” In 2023, Latin music continued its exponential growth in commercial value. The Recording Industry Assn ...

Here are the best rock and metal albums and songs of 2023. Perhaps the most plentiful year in new music yet, 2023 saw the release of a couple thousand albums and a few thousand singles all falling ...

Already making her mark on the zeitgeist in 2023 with Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd, Lana Del Rey had one more thing to say earlier this month with her take on John Denver’s ...

As hip-hop celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, headlines swirled around its potentially diminishing force as a commercial juggernaut: The first half of the year didn’t see a rap song or album ...

As our new digital homelands power global connectivity, the world has shrunk, and Afropop’s fandom has grown. Young powerhouses like Tyla, Amaarae, and Libianca set new trends at the head of a class ...

For all of its exhausting megastar narratives and apparent monoculture victories, 2023 was, beneath the surface, an unpredictable year. Regional Mexican Music burst into the mainstream, underground ...

While plenty of energy was spent this year debating whether or not rap was still at the forefront of pop culture as it reached its fiftieth anniversary, there was no shortage of exciting new music to ...

“I don’t know how to feel, but I wanna try,” sang Billie Eilish, as Barbie, and in 2023, some of us knew exactly how she felt. (Or couldn’t.) Fortunately, there are about 35 million songs a year being ...

R&B girlies sampling hip-hop classics, Latin divas tag-teaming for a knockout hit and Billie channeling Barbie were among favorites of THR's senior music editor. By Mesfin Fekadu It’s hard to think of ...