NEW YORK — The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. It's a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024, ...

The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. It’s a new single-year record, up 9.6 percent from 2024, which ...

Richard Smallwood didn’t just write songs. He crafted hymns that felt like they had always existed. His music lived in that ...

Grammy-Award-winning saxophone player Kirk Whalum has mark through his own music, collaborations with others and his work on ...

Donnie McClurkin’s former assistant has sued the Grammy-winning gospel singer and pastor, claiming years-long sexual abuse.

Taste of Country said many more country stars such as Shania Twain, Reba McEntire, Billy Ray Cyrus, Doug Stone, Shelby Lynne, ...

If 1965 was the year when pop and rock music started to take its first baby steps toward adulthood, as more artists began to ...

Smallwood died at a Maryland nursing home on Dec. 30. He had been diagnosed with “mild dementia and a variety of other health issues." ...

These country songs from 1962 were so good for their time, and they also influenced the whole of the genre for years after.

This year’s roundtable on Black popular music in Nashville takes a different approach from previous years, in that the focus ...

Kick off 2026 with these great new albums, EPs and songs from Ryan Necci and the Buffalo Gospel, Barely Civil, Ebony Loren, ...