There’s a bit of a paradox to these. The sort of people who follow music — say, by reading pop music columns — have probably known about many featured artists for a while. The sort of people who don’t ...

2024 was a great year for pop, and that’s reflected in the results for the Uproxx Music Critics Poll for 2024.

From dance music to jazz and rock ‘n’ roll, Black musicians have been a pivotal creative influence in the evolution of ...

Songs released between 2020 and 2024 accounted for nearly half ... nearly two-thirds of all audio streams amongst the top 100 pop artists in the U.S.” The shift is led by six women who dominated ...

In 19 cases of chicken and egg, we explore the times pop artists were influenced by their classical predecessors. For the intro of her single ‘Alejandro’, Gaga neatly nabbed Csárdás, the rhapsodic ...

If you streamed a lot more music in 2024 — and in particular, a lot of women pop performers — you are not alone. In the U.S., on-demand audio streams grew at a rate of 6.4%, totaling 1.4 trillion.