musicians seem as eager to collect and to sprawl — and sometimes to tighten up — as they’ve ever been. Here are the 20 albums I loved holding varying amounts of space for during 2024.

The 2020s have emerged as a defining period of uncertainty and introspection. From the lingering aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic to the far-reaching effects of various worldwide conflicts, the ...

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.

For the first time since 2014, no hip-hop album managed to break the 400,000 first-week sales mark ... have changed how audiences engage with full albums, affecting traditional sales metrics.

Blake Fusilier has been making his way into the indie and DIY scenes for a minute now, but he’s finally gearing up to release ...

SZA’s SOS secures a 12th nonconsecutive week atop the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Jan. 11), continuing to profit from its deluxe reissue on Dec. 20 with 15 additional trac ...

Four country albums help fill up this week’s (Jan. 20-26) list of new country releases. Additionally, you’ll find great songs from Tyler Hubbard, Charley Crockett, Morgan Wallen and Glen Campbell.

As the year comes to an end, we’re paying tribute to our favorite albums and songs released across our favorite genres. This week, we tackled the very best K-pop songs of 2024, and today we’ve ...

It’s the week before the holidays and most artists aren’t dropping whole new albums right now, but re-releases are apparently still fair game. 1432 is the deluxe edition of Perry’s most ...