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For at least a decade now – since Billboard started counting music streams in its chart calculations in 2013, and probably before – the sound of pop music has been sharply bifurcated between the ...

In 2024, pop music was defined by a combination of A-list releases - from Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande, among many others - and breakthrough moments for newly minted ...

Music critics—myself included—have spent much of the past several years bemoaning the decline of capital-“E” Events in music: no new superstars to crown, no more tentpole albums to unify us, no more ...