Songs show up everywhere these days: appended to sports highlights and TikToks, piped into political rallies and Paneras, interpolated during sermons. This ubiquity often trivializes music, but it ...

You can hear the backstory of the artist born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in his music — studying Chopin, Bach, and Beethoven as a precocious preteen at the Royal Academy of Music; falling hard for ...

As the end of the year approaches, we can’t help but wonder and predict the songs that are likely to emerge as Song of the Year. Here are the songs likely to see victory at the end of the year in no ...

Back in the day, you knew a song was a hit when you heard it everywhere. Well, at what passed for everywhere back in the day: blasting from open windows, backyards, cars, stores, boomboxes ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...

2024 was an interesting year in music — one that perhaps foreshadows the future of music-listening habits. As we move further away from monoculture, and people's musical listening experiences ...