The year 2020 was an odd one for the world, but the year certainly had plenty of great music. These four country songs all came out in 2020 and have sadly already been forgotten, even though they are ...

Sale of individual songs aren’t doing very well in the U.S., as more and more listeners choose not to head to iTunes or Amazon to purchase tunes. Instead, millions of fans flock to streaming sites to ...

The animated version of Disney’sMulan featured a few iconic songs, from “Honor To Us All” to “Reflection” to “I’ll Make a Man Out of You.” Although the 2020 adaptation wasn’t a musical, there were ...

Nothing unites people like good music and a common cause. Every year, we release the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) which ranks countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, ...

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When we look back on 2020, many sounds will come to mind. The 7 p.m. cheers for frontline workers, Patti Labelle and Gladys Knight’s voices mingling together, the deafening silence of existential ...

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Music has been a consistent comfort and creative outlet through the tumultuous year that has been 2020. Although sold-out concerts, packed nightclubs, and cozy indie venues have largely been closed ...

There’s so much we’d like to erase about 2020 — but never, ever the elation, élan, empathy, harmony, rich social commentary and dumb fun that the year’s best music brought us. Yes, we do hope the door ...

2020 was the crappiest, most stress-inducing year in recent memory, so if you managed to get through it in one piece, congratulations! You are a true survivor. But let’s be real for a sec: We all ...

In Slate’s annual Music Club, Slate music critic Carl Wilson emails with fellow critics—this year, Rolling Stone staff writer Brittany Spanos, New York Times contributor Lindsay Zoladz, and special ...