Latin America’s recorded music revenues rose by 22.5% in 2024, with streaming accounting for 87.8% of revenues, a staggering ...

Think about the music pumping through your headphones right now. Where did it actually come from? Every beat, every guitar ...

Everybody loves the blues in some capacity. This genre of soulful music can be traced back to the 1860s in the Deep South. The origins of the blues started with African-American musicians who created ...

A genre is a category of artistic, musical or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form or content. Music genres such as pop, country, rock and folk are used to categorize songs ...

I admit it. I’m horrible at making playlists. I’ve never quite been able to capture “the vibe”, so instead, I resort to titling my playlists after the genre of the songs in them. “Rock” is a ten hour ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Disco is a genre of music that people seem to feel passionately ...

If America’s sense of national identity has a soundtrack, surely the sound is Country Music — a commercial genre borne of the myth-making it took to forge America itself: a yarn spun from the threads ...

Music and the frequencies we listen to tend to have a powerful impact on our emotions and mental state. And it’s not only research that proves this. You may have probably experienced the power of ...

With the drop of “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages” in February, Beyoncé staked her claim in country music. Within 10 days of its release, “Texas Hold ‘Em” became a #1 charting song on Billboard’s ...