On Jan. 1, 2000, the average cost of a CD was about $18, which meant if you wanted to legally own 250 albums, it would set you back about $4,500. Napster existed and it was pretty obvious even ...

Now that it’s the new year, it’s time to put aside the collection of songs from our 2024 Spotify Wrapped and start 2025 with a fresh playlist of new music. Here are the 10 releases we’re ...

THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR HOLIDAY ALBUMS ACROSS ALL GENRES AND ERAS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS ...

Official Charts can confirm today that Dua Lipa had the biggest cassette single of 2024, while Sabrina Carpenter secured the biggest cassette album. Dua comes out on top with Training Season ...

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

BIGBANG’s G-Dragon is reportedly preparing to release a new full-length album next month! On January 6, TenAsia reported that G-Dragon’s long-awaited full-length album is slated for release in ...

Another day, another glimpse of Bipasha Basu and Karan Singh Grover's dreamy Maldives getaway. The couple jetted off to the picturesque location with their daughter, Devi, to celebrate Bipasha's ...

On Sept. 28, 2024, Ye announced during his Vultures 2 listening event at the Wuyuan River Stadium in Haikou, China that he was dropping an album called Bully. "I got a new album coming out," Ye ...

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today. From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The ...

Earlier, on the same day, the publication revealed that G-Dragon would make a comeback in February with a new full-length album. It was noted that the idol's latest tracks, including Power and ...

Because it was such a transitional year for us, the process of putting together our best albums of the year list was necessarily collaborative: We used a ranked-choice voting system and asked our ...

In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York City to meet his folk music idol Woody Guthrie, and decided to become, in ...