Bad Bunny kicked 2025 off with a strong new album, and Ethel Cain returned with an ambient project soon after. Meanwhile, FKA Twigs is set to come back with Eusexua, and Tate McRae’s third album ...

the word “himbodome.” Most of those moments are reflected in our list of the 50 best albums of 2024 (sans Chappell Roan, whose sleeper hit debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess ...

Beyoncé walks a country mile in Nancy Sinatra’s boots, The Cure drop one of their best albums after a 16-year wait, MJ Lenderman dares to challenge the milkshake/smoothie dichotomy. These are ...

Speaking of legends, RIP Steve Albini, whose final album with Shellac appears here. He helped build this whole genre from the ground up and the world is an even more irredeemably compromised place ...

By Paul Grein Stray Kids’ new album HOP puts K-pop back in a familiar spot – No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart. HOP is the 19th No. 1 album or EP by a K-pop act on the Billboard 200.

The most memorable moment in rap of 2024 isn’t an album, it’s the multi-song rap battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake that culminated in the release of the year’s most world-conquering ...

THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR CLASSICAL ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

Album anniversaries make listeners feel their age, yet lift the same burden by returning them to the glorious music of their bygone days. In 2025, a number of albums will celebrate milestones.

Of all the notable albums released in 2024, many of the most original and memorable have been acts of hybridization in one way or another: Mabe Fratti’s multicultural chamber rock; Meshell ...

Loudwire has ranked the 11 best metal albums of 2024. Come see if your favorites from this year made the cut! As we get deeper into the 2020s, one thing is becoming increasingly clear — we're ...

OUSSAMA ZAHR This year, no album was as ambitious and intelligent as “Music in Time of War,” a imagined conversation between Claude Debussy and Komitas Vardapet, witnesses to 20th-century horrors.

SZA‘s long-awaited the deluxe edition of her Grammy-winning 2022 album “SOS,” which is titled “Lana,” has finally arrived. The album has been through a long series of false alarms — it ...