Stories behind tracks by Fontaines D.C., Beyoncé, Nina Simone and more. By Lindsay Zoladz Today’s playlist — our first of 2026 — is all about you. As I do each December, I asked you to tell me about a ...

Olivia Dean in Manchester, England in March 2026; Bill Withers in New York City in September 2012. The copyright lawsuit was filed in California on Oct. 1 Dean and her songwriters are not listed as ...

The first of the important year-end music industry data reports have come out for 2025, from Luminate Data and Chartmetric. Luminate’s report confirms that growth in music streaming in the U.S. is ...

Plus, total audio music consumption in the United States grew 4.8%. By Keith Caulfield Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl closed 2025 as the most popular album of the year in the United States, ...