THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED BY ...

Max Martin is one of Taylor Swift’s favorite collaborators — as on her soon-to-be blockbuster The Life of a Showgirl, where he and Shellback co-produced and co-wrote the whole album. Martin, the ...

If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...

Country women have delivered some truly great music in 2025. This list of the 12 best country songs released by females features several contemporary hitmakers, one absolute legend and a woman who ...

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Infinite Coles, the son of Hip-Hop icon Ghostface Killah, has released two songs that explore the divide between him and his father, and the web is taking notice. The two songs, “SweetFace Killah” and ...

Is it possible to compose your own songs without any instrument or knowledge of sheet music? The answer is now a definitive yes. Thanks to specialized AI services, this is no longer a problem. They ...

Since hip-hop's inception, the genre has exponentially grown with every single decade, and the 2000s era was no different. Hip-hop saw even more commercial success than before; it succeeded in ...

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Benny Blanco has been behind some of the biggest tracks of the past 20 years, including Katy Perry's "California Gurls" and Rihanna's "Diamonds" Julien Hekimian/Getty ; Jerod Harris/Getty ; Unique ...

Paul McCartney's Wings era somehow remains underrated, even as interest in his first band shows no sign of abating. But they made their own very rich contributions to McCartney's legacy in the decade ...