Quincy Jones is dead at 91. There has simply never been an American artist better in touch with the pulse of popular culture than this producer, arranger, and composer whose work spanned nearly 70 ...
This week, a potential landmark case in the music industry was filed against Universal Music Group for allegedly withholding over $750 million of royalties from its artists over streams. Meanwhile, in ...
Most people, particularly millennials and Generation Z, wouldn't stand for watching videos on a boxy, grainy television set. Yet, that's essentially the equivalent of the poor-quality sound they get ...
The '90s were such an epic time for music, a decade that not only had elite music programming across radio and TV, but also helped shape the course of music history. From the rise of hip-hop ...
Because Gaana is a subscription-only platform, every stream reflects a paying subscriber, what the platform calls a TrueFan.
No genre of music is without its controversy, and country music is no exception. Even before the age of the internet, plenty of scandals rattled the country music world. Let’s look at just a few ...
So many more albums than these four below have influenced popular music and music trends in the 2010s. However, I’m quite partial to this underrated bunch of solid, memorable, and replay-friendly ...
SZA is one of the defining R&B artists of our time. If you ask SZA, though, she wants to be more than that, and she thinks that it’s because she’s Black that some people put her in that R&B box. In a ...
Something about music changed this year. There was a shift—not seismic, but noticeable—in what we listen to. Radio turned their back on tried-and-true stars, opening arms instead to rappers raised on ...