Shazam identifies rising artists before they break, based on early song-recognition trends. Today, the platform revealed its Fast Forward 2026 lineup.

Shazam has published its annual Fast Forward list, and an accompanying Apple Music playlist. The list takes a look ahead at ...

Known as the Red-Headed Stranger, a serious cannabis enthusiast and one of country music's most iconic songwriters, Willie Nelson has recorded an incredible number of classic songs in his more than 60 ...

Get ready to feel all the feels with some of country music'€™s most heart-wrenching tunes. From tales of love lost and grief to stories of hardship and hope, these songs capture the rawest emotions ...

In the late 2010s, so-called mumble rap took off. Critics lamented that the genre—and the styles it continues to spawn—ignores lyricism and craft, a complaint that gives short shrift to the infectious ...

The Spotify playlist “sad christmas” had 5,121 followers in 2021. By November 2025, that number hit 28,800. Not a typo. Not a glitch. A 462% increase in people actively choosing melancholy over ...

Christmastime is here, as Vince Guaraldi and Lee Mendelson put it in the nostalgia-inducing song composed for A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965. The soundtrack to that TV holiday classic has been ...

There’s an old Howard Jones song that sums up the state of the Detroit Lions. You can look at the menu but you just can't eat. You can feel the cushions but you can't have a seat. That’s where this ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

ChatGPT is everywhere and now it will work with Apple Music as well. The AI chatbot now integrates with the music streaming app from Apple which enhances the experience of using the platform and ...

You may not know it (yet), but lots of holiday earworms have the work of a Pennsylvanian — or several — behind them. From 19th-century religious hymns to covers of Christmas classics by some of the ...