THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE. click ...

Cardi B made history with her second No. 1 album, “AM I THE DRAMA?,” breaking records and silencing doubts after a seven-year hiatus. Cardi B stormed the charts and rewrote Hip-Hop history this week ...

Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, "The Life of a Showgirl." Swift put out the word on her website shortly after a countdown timer expired at 12:12 a.m. Tuesday. On Wednesday, her site ...

Stopgap cash grab by the record company or the result of artist indulgence that can't be contained within the usual confines of a single LP? The double album has been both throughout its long and ...

June 2025 is proving to be a busy month for new albums. There’s releases from Addison Rae, Lil Wayne, Little Simz, Turnstile, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Hotline TNT, Yaya Bey, and now, Haim.

What if your music became wildly popular—but nobody knew it was yours? This was Charley Yang’s dilemma. A little more than four years ago, Yang—an aspiring if reluctant teenage songwriter from ...

What do we know about BoyWithUke? If you quickly scan TikTok, you can figure out he is a musical artist who writes and produces all of his own music, creating songs in his dorm room on GarageBand ...

Album Of The Week February 4, 2025 12:30 PM By Ryan Leas Across the rest of the album, there’s rarely a moment as obviously garish as “Crispy Skin,” and many of the other songs leave their narratives ...

Streaming has mutated the album as a format over the past decade, lengthening tracklists, shifting where likely hits get placed, and chipping away at song runtimes. But this year, artists seemed less ...

Charli XCX, Mk.gee and MJ Lenderman top our pop music critics’ lists this year. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles The agendas for 21st-century musicians keep getting more ...

The death of the album has been proclaimed many times, and after decades of piracy and point-and-click listening, cohesive bodies of work have indeed lost some of their cultural stature. Yet the long ...

The previous two albums released by David Gilmour - the 2015 solo record Rattle That Lock and Pink Floyd's The Endless River, out a year earlier - double as snapshots of the time. Both conceived after ...