the word “himbodome.” Most of those moments are reflected in our list of the 50 best albums of 2024 (sans Chappell Roan, whose sleeper hit debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess ...

Beyoncé walks a country mile in Nancy Sinatra’s boots, The Cure drop one of their best albums after a 16-year wait, MJ Lenderman dares to challenge the milkshake/smoothie dichotomy. These are ...

Speaking of legends, RIP Steve Albini, whose final album with Shellac appears here. He helped build this whole genre from the ground up and the world is an even more irredeemably compromised place ...

By Paul Grein Stray Kids’ new album HOP puts K-pop back in a familiar spot – No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart. HOP is the 19th No. 1 album or EP by a K-pop act on the Billboard 200.

artists striking out on their own solo and whatever has fallen in-between since January. Without further ado, here are the 40 best debut albums of 2024. —Matt Mitchell, Music Editor ...

The most memorable moment in rap of 2024 isn’t an album, it’s the multi-song rap battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake that culminated in the release of the year’s most world-conquering ...

THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR CLASSICAL ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

Official Charts can confirm today that Dua Lipa had the biggest cassette single of 2024, while Sabrina Carpenter secured the biggest cassette album. Dua comes out on top with Training Season ...

Because it was such a transitional year for us, the process of putting together our best albums of the year list was necessarily collaborative: We used a ranked-choice voting system and asked our ...

Album anniversaries make listeners feel their age, yet lift the same burden by returning them to the glorious music of their bygone days. In 2025, a number of albums will celebrate milestones.

Of all the notable albums released in 2024, many of the most original and memorable have been acts of hybridization in one way or another: Mabe Fratti’s multicultural chamber rock; Meshell ...

Loudwire has ranked the 11 best metal albums of 2024. Come see if your favorites from this year made the cut! As we get deeper into the 2020s, one thing is becoming increasingly clear — we're ...