Welcome to a whopper of a mixtape. If you've been living under the rock 2020 dropped on all of us back in March and spent the last nine months finding comfort in the sounds of your childhood (hell, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Sales of songs may have been down once again in the U.S. in 2020, ...

I would've spent 2020 stuck inside and online even if there wasn't a novel coronavirus; in February I took this website back from our parent company, and rebuilt it as an independent business (over ...

November's list of the Top 40 country songs is a real look at which direction the genre is heading. Two proudly redneck country boys sit at or near the top of the list this month, and neither of them ...

Jason Isbell and his band the 400 Unit earned two of the Top 10 most-played songs on Americana radio in 2020. The singer-songwriter's "Dreamsicle" and "Be Afraid," both from his May release Reunions, ...

Zach Bryan first started giving public performances in 2019 after posting videos of him singing on YouTube. Five years later, the Oklahoma native is one of the biggest stars in popular music, with ...

Plagues, protests, politics ... 2020 was a trip. If last year’s version of you could dream up something stressful (anything really), it likely happened during the past 12 months. Sadly, we probably ...