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ATLANTA, GEORGIA - JANUARY 15: Pastor Troy, Jermaine Dupri, Lyor Cohen, Global Head of YouTube Music, and Tuma Basa, Director of Urban Music, YouTube attend YouTube Music 2020 Leaders & Legends Ball ...

Hosted by Kim Jong Kook and Jun So Min, the 2020 APAN Music Awards took place on January 24. The 2020 APAN Awards (which includes both the Star Awards and the Music Awards) were originally scheduled ...

While our feet were planted firmly in the U.S. in 2020, largely barred from international travel, streaming data shows us our ears, at least, were wandering the globe. Figures from Alpha Data, the ...

News of Van Halen founder and guitarist Eddie Van Halen's death saddened musicians and fans around the world in October 2020. While rumors of his continuing cancer battle had circulated for years, the ...

If the music business were allowed to write its own history, every year’s chronicle would glow with variations on the same theme — the words “transformation,” “revolution,” and “record-breaking sea ...

Brittany, I found your recap of 2020 as the year of Stevie Nicks incredibly refreshing—a real relief from the relentless drumbeat of the new that so often drives music coverage. It brought up tons of ...

Think of it as a victory lap for arguably the worst year ever. Now that every list-maker with ears has run down the albums and songs that made 2020 a little easier to endure, let’s take a minute as we ...

In Slate’s annual Music Club, Slate music critic Carl Wilson emails with fellow critics—this year, Rolling Stone staff writer Brittany Spanos, New York Times contributor Lindsay Zoladz, and four ...

Let's face it, 2020 has been anything but normal. Thankfully the year is almost over. The coronavirus pandemic upended virtually every aspect of our lives. The music industry wasn't immune. Performers ...

While the pandemic forced us all inside this year, some of our favorite artists kept us distracted and lifted our spirits by breaking new ground with their visuals. Whether tiptoeing into Cardi B and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to our critics’ favorites from a year in which much of the energy in music came from recordings. By Anthony Tommasini Zachary Woolfe Joshua ...