Welcome to New Music Friday, NPR Music's podcast dedicated to sharing the best albums out each week. We listen to dozens of new releases in advance, identify the ones we think you need to hear, and ...

With a career spanning several decades, Minnelli looked to share her stories of love, triumph, and heartbreak with her memoir, Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! Set to release on March 10, 2026, the ...

“Let’s hear it,” Jenna said. The new co-hosts then started dancing to the upbeat ditty, while Sheinelle invited everyone in the studio to dance with them. “By the way, can we thank our dear friend ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. BTS fans only need to wait a little more than two months before the ...

If you’ve already played out all the best albums of 2025 and you’re ready to put your music listening habits in 2026 mode, you’re in luck because this year is already musically off to a good start. We ...

Millions of people sing it each year at the stroke of midnight, some beaming with joy and others overcome with emotion as they bid goodbye to the year that has passed. But what does the New Year’s ...

Looking to freshen up your Christmas playlist with some newer recordings? Well, the contemporary Christian music (CCM) genre just keeps cranking out quality Christmas albums year after year. Related ...

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are back as Elphaba and Glinda for “Wicked: For Good,” Jon M. Chu’s latest film which adapts the second act of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s hit musical. Though ...

Fred Again.. continues his USB002 drop series with this track made with Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso and remixed, separately, by Ezra Collective and Fred himself. The song has been in Fred’s DJ sets this ...

“Dhoom Machale,” a popular Hindi film song played at the end of Zohran Mamdani’s first speech as New York City’s mayor-elect, nodded to his Indian roots. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani with his mother ...

Pure showgirl energy. Do you know the moves? Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” music video dropped on Sunday, Oct. 5, and some TikTok creators are recreating a viral dance in it with their own ...