If you’re like a lot of us, this past year might be one you’re not unhappy to see go. (Maybe you’d even like to see the swinging door slap 2024’s ass on the way out.) But then, also like ...

Taylor Swift has earned the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Top Artist of the 21st Century chart based on her stellar performance.

Born in Pennsylvania in 1989, Taylor began singing at local events as a child. She learned guitar at age 12 and soon started writing her own songs. Her family moved to Tennessee to help her music ...

From Charli XCX giving us a "Brat" summer to Shaboozey getting us to hand clap along to "A Bar Song (Tipsy)," much liveliness reigned in music in 2024. Even a couple of newcomers – Benson Boone ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK streamed almost 200bn tracks in 2024, helping to increase the annual consumption of music by a tenth ...

One artist who has stood out for the past decade as the best-selling and most-awarded act of her generation is pop star ...