2024 was a historic year for music, with Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” tying Lil Nas X’s record for longest-running Billboard Hot 100 No. 1. Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” put the ...

That’s according to research compiled by Ian Mance, a civil rights attorney with Emancipate NC, who has asked the city to celebrate the song’s ties to Durham. Set to a melancholy arrangement ...

The top of my list is big-statement songs, ones that had repercussions beyond how they sound. Below those, it’s not a ranking but a playlist, a more-or-less guided cruise through what 2024 ...

Billboard offers its takes on the top country songs of 2024, including music from Kacey Musgraves, Lainey Wilson, Riley Green, George Strait & more. Country music continued its surge in 2024 ...

making this year one of the most dynamic years in recent memory. These are the songs that defined hip-hop in 2024.

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The defining songs of 2024 ran the gamut in every conceivable way: from vicious diss tracks to sapphic heartbreak anthems, from folksy indie ...

By Mesfin Fekadu When you’re picking your favorite songs of the year, it can be helpful to just think about what you wanted to blast while you showered or cooked. What songs helped motivate you ...

McBryde Publishing of New Bern, NC, proudly announces the release of The Embers: The Bobby Tomlinson Story, a definitive ...

Continuing on with list season, we’re pivoting our focus to the best cover songs of the year. We opted to limit the ranking to one entry per project, as something like Thanks to I Saw the TV ...

Songs show up everywhere these days: appended to sports highlights and TikToks, piped into political rallies and Paneras, interpolated during sermons. This ubiquity often trivializes music, but it ...

Near the end of each year, music people scribble out lists of their favorite songs, then take a few steps back to squint at the rankings. Is there any kind of theme in there? A unifying essence?