2024 was a great year for pop, and that’s reflected in the results for the Uproxx Music Critics Poll for 2024. Charli XCX, Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, and Ariana Grande ...

If you’re like a lot of us, this past year might be one you’re not unhappy to see go. (Maybe you’d even like to see the swinging door slap 2024’s ass on the way out.) But then, also like some of us, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Benjamin is a New York-based writer covering global pop music. ROSÉ performs "APT." live with Bruno Mars at the 2024 MAMA ...

It’s nearly impossible to keep up with the avalanche of new songs that arrive every year. We’re here to help: Find a gem you may have missed from the 450-plus tracks Jon Pareles and Lindsay Zoladz ...

This is a transcript of a special episode of Hit Parade. To hear the whole episode, join Slate Plus. Chris Molanphy: Hey, everybody—this is Chris Molanphy, host of Hit Parade, Slate’s podcast of pop ...

How many ways can you praise the music of 2024? Well, as the late great Quincy Jones would say, find 100 ways, because it was a year of surprises all over the music map. It was an abundant year to go ...

Notice anything unusual about this year's top hits? Yes, more than half of them are from last year. In 2024, there were 13 songs released that year in the Hitmakers final Top 25, as tallied by our ...

That’s the way we feel as we round the bend into the final days of the year. We really had it ALL in 2024: Era-defining albums, the Olympics, the return of the blockbuster movie musical, a ...

With so many constant releases in Latin music, it can sometimes feel hard to keep up — but lots of songs rose from the din and stood out this year. Some of the best ones were new inventions (take, for ...