If you saw them in Sacramento when they were still playing clubs, you can thank Brian McKenna. McKenna gave them all a Sacramento stage as one of the city’s signature concert promoters. Over the past ...

In the years since then, it has been bestowed sparingly — only if a song has moved at least 10 million equivalent units by combining sales and streaming numbers. Crucially, an artist or label ...

We talk a lot about sob-inducing movies, but personally, I don’t think enough attention is paid to the best sad songs to cry to, from Adele ballads—duh—to offerings from Mitski and Enya ...

"A Bar Song (Tipsy)" continued to dominate the Hot 100, accumulating 19 nonconsecutive weeks atop the chart. It's the longest-leading solo hit in Hot 100 history and tied with Lil Nas X's "Old ...

Songs show up everywhere these days: appended to sports highlights and TikToks, piped into political rallies and Paneras, interpolated during sermons. This ubiquity often trivializes music, but it ...

Now that the Eras Tour is back for nearly all of 2024, the surprise songs are back! For those unfamiliar, every night of the tour Taylor Swift picks two songs from her extensive catalog that aren ...

Elton composed bespoke music with killer hooks and elegant plumage, crafting songs that fit him to a T, delivering them with falsetto flourishes and barrelhouse piano runs. On top of it all ...

As the end of the year approaches, we can’t help but wonder and predict the songs that are likely to emerge as Song of the Year. Here are the songs likely to see victory at the end of the year in no ...

It’s like the old metaphor about a butterfly’s sneeze being the spark that leads to a hurricane thousands of miles away: One person puts a song on a TikTik video — new, old, niche ...

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...