Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Top tracks: “Lost in Japan,” “Youth (feat. Khalid),” and “Mutual” In his self-titled ...

Recognizing both the videos we spent all year talking about and the ones we wished more people had gotten the chance to watch on heavy rotation, here are the Billboard staff's 50 favorite videos of… ...

From Beyoncé and Jay’s Louvre takeover to Troye Sivan’s sweaty warehouse reverie to CupcakKe’s gloriously NSFW dildo party, these are the 25 visuals that we couldn’t look away from this year.

Country music addressed a number of tough topics this year: addiction, failed marriages, the passage of time and disillusionment in our leaders, among them. And while those songs excelled because of ...

One taught us about love, patience and pain...and one taught us about whatever "poopy-di scoop" is. Below, Billboard highlights the lyrics that tell the story of music in 2018, from feuds to trends… ...

“Saturday Night” from Seaside Heights’ Brick + Mortar is a cautionary tale of addiction that’s paranoid but glorious in its own way, too. Lead singer Brandon Asraf’s compressed vocals are a detox ...

The 2017 year-end report published by the data company BuzzAngle, which tracks music consumption, contained a disturbing statistic tucked away in the report: The most popular 10 percent of songs ...

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Get in the mix with these great music apps. Image: Killian Bell/Cult of Mac The iOS music scene is stronger than ever, and 2018 saw some pretty awesome apps, from the simple MIDI keyboard app KB-1, to ...

To some extent, we all knew kinda what to expect from the music world in 2018. Beyonce would continue to reign – which she most certainly did, with her Coachella headlining performance, On The Run II ...

We're trying something different this year. You'll still find a capsule review of each album in the Top 10, but instead of me doing all the heavy lifting, we've asked a critic who voted for that album ...