The year 2025 was a pretty incredible one in country music. Both new artists and established ones found themselves at the top of the charts. We picked four of the best country songs that came out in ...

Hip-hop began in 1973 Bronx as a voice against racism and inequality, rooted in DJing, rapping, dance, and graffiti. It later ...

We found four of the best country hits that came out in 2022, even though few people remember them anymore. Let's change that ...

The most common reason for festival attendance is to discover new music, cited by 72 percent of attendees worldwide. This is ...

Artwork for The Feast, the latest release by Nigeria’s best known rapper, Falz. Bahd Guys Records by Paul Onanuga, Federal University, Oye Ekiti Nigerian rapper, actor and social media star Falz ...

Year-end season is normally all about positivity—publications pick their favorite albums and songs from the previous 12 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When an AI-generated country song called “Walk My Walk” hit No. 1 on Billboard’s country digital song sales chart this month, it was credited to a fictional artist named Breaking ...

An AI-generated country song has topped Billboard‘s “Country Digital Song Sales” chart in the United States — once again highlighting how ubiquitous algorithmically generated music is becoming. The ...

For the first time in more than three decades, not a single rap song ranks among the 40 most popular tracks in America. Last week’s Billboard Hot 100 marked the end of a remarkable 35-year streak, ...

What makes a truly great dark country song? Well, it helps if there's a death involved, and country music is full of classic, chilling murder ballads that fit the bill. But in order to be truly dark, ...

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: On last week's Billboard Hot 100, there were no rap songs in the top 40.