Look, streaming numbers are weird. A billion streams sounds made up. Four billion? That’s basically incomprehensible. But here we are in 2025, and The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” is pushing 5 billion ...

Drake’s “Janice STFU” is less a traditional diss track than a song about surviving endless online commentary. Built around the hypnotic “beep beep baby” hook and a distorted interpolation of Lykke ...

“Father Figure” dropped October 3, 2025, as track four on The Life of a Showgirl. The song interpolates George Michael’s 1987 hit of the same name, earning the late artist a songwriting credit ...

Four days ago the European Commission approved Universal Music Group’s $775 million takeover of Downtown Music Holdings. If you distribute your music independently and you haven’t heard about it yet, ...

“Love” by Keyshia Cole is a song about unrequited love that doesn’t transform into heartbreak so much as fixation. She’s not grieving a relationship. She’s stuck on a question: what does she have that ...

The streaming payment landscape in 2025 tells a story about power, access, and what “fair compensation” actually means. Musicians now face a market where per-stream rates span from $0.00069 to $0.03, ...

If you’ve heard “Spotify pays X per stream,” forget it. In 2025, payouts are streamshare-based, eligibility now starts at 1,000 streams a year, and the platform just logged a $10B payout to ...

How does a band that doesn’t exist win a Grammy and sell out arenas? For twenty-plus years, Gorillaz have lived in that contradiction, and turned it into a working model for pop. Gorillaz arrived just ...

Here’s a statistic that should make every record label executive break out in a cold sweat: 84% of songs that entered the Billboard Global 200 in 2024 went viral on TikTok first. Not after. First.

In the beginning, God created post-punk revivalism. The indie sleaze scene kicked off in New York City with post-punk revival bands like Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and The Strokes being embraced by ...

Let’s be honest. If you’d told me a few years ago that TikTok—yes, the app best known for dance trends and lip-syncing—would also become a musical time machine, I’d have probably asked you to put down ...

Jessica Rabbit isn’t your average animated character. She’s the dame with the sultry voice, the red dress, and a scandalous sway that’s got her fans buzzing—and Disney execs clutching their pearls.