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 ...

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As DEI battles and funding shifts roil campuses, music programs from UCLA to Juilliard continue to grow. THR ranks the 20 schools shaping the next generation of composers. By Jeff Bond Conservatories ...

Music lovers, are you ready to revisit your favorite songs and artists of 2025? On Dec. 2, Apple Music rolled out its 2025 Apple Music Replay. Like Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay compiles Apple ...

Apple announced on Tuesday that it’s rolling out Apple Music Replay, its answer to Spotify’s popular Wrapped feature. Apple Music Replay gives users a look back at their year in music by highlighting ...

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The genre peaked in terms of global awareness with “KPop Demon Hunters,” while the industry’s most promising new act was mired in a legal morass. By Jon Caramanica This year, from a distance, the ...

My favorite albums of 2025 weren’t exactly magic tricks, but you had to listen to them closely to keep from getting head-faked. A country music traditionalist was the freshest in his field. A ...

The year’s almost over, but YouTube Music isn’t waiting any longer to release its personalized 2025 Recap. In addition to cataloging your top tracks of the year, the Recap offers AI-powered analysis ...

If K-pop wasn’t already a powerhouse cornerstone of the music industry before, 2025 saw yet another explosion of interest in the genre thanks to the larger-than-life success of Kpop Demon Hunters. Now ...

The group Pentatonix are known for their a capella renditions of Christmas classics. They used to start touring after Thanksgiving, but this year they kicked off on Nov. 8. “We’re like, ‘well, we ...