Humans want fundamentally incompatible things from music services. "We want to listen to all the stuff that everyone likes, but also only the stuff that we like," said New Yorker staff writer Kelefa ...

If you’ve been reading Paste this year, you know a lot of music came out in 2021. Hip-hop was no exception, and despite a pandemic, it was a blessing in disguise to the many musicians who had an ...

Watch out, Google, Bing, and ChatGPT: Spotify is the latest tech company to launch a big, new AI feature. And it's something completely different: an AI DJ. The DJ — which uses a combination of ...

Physical media showed strong signs of life last year. The 2021 RIAA Music Industry Data confirms that vinyl and CDs are going nowhere but up. Americans purchased how many new records in 2021? 40 ...

AMSTERDAM, March 3 (Reuters) - Universal Music Group NV (UMG) (UMG.AS), opens new tab on Thursday reported a 19% rise in full-year core earnings for 2021, in line with expectations, due to growing ...

News flash: we've had a lot more time to consume music during the pandemic. While many in-person concerts were canceled or postponed, our devices allowed us to stream our favorite tunes, dance in ...

2021 has been another difficult year for electronic music, thanks in part (three-quarters, really) to the ongoing global pandemic. More than any other modern genre of music, electronic is deeply ...

On December 31, 2021, MBC kicked off their annual New Year’s Eve Music Festival! The 2021 MBC Music Festival is hosted by 2PM’s Lee Junho, Girls’ Generation’s YoonA, and Jang Sung Kyu. Performers ...

The local and regional music scene was rich with new releases and breakthrough albums in 2021. And on the national stage, a few bands shredded guitars and banged drums in the name of rock and roll, a ...

This year, many of the books we loved most used music as a lens through which to examine broader issues of politics, history, and identity — whether it was the story of capitalist circulation as heard ...

This was supposed to be the year that the music industry returned to normal. Funny expectation, wasn’t it? For patches of time, it felt possible. Amphitheater concerts with their open-air environments ...

Pop music had a year like no other, beginning 2021 with shuttered venues and ending with an explosion of concerts. Not that music wasn't being made. In the early months of the year, many musicians ...