Over the past few years, year-end critics’ lists have multiplied faster than the worry lines on Ben Bernanke’s brow. Mark our words, the Internet and your local Barnes & Noble’s magazine rack will be ...

Mika has topped the list in a Sound of 2007 music poll to find the best new musical talent. The survey, run by BBC News Online, is now in its fifth year, and looks to find new favourites by polling ...

The Hype Machine is a great music blog aggregator that we’ve somehow failed to write about until now. The site continuously collects material, including reviews and songs, from the best music blogs on ...

What 2007 lacked in groundbreakingly great CDs, it more than made up for with good CDs: Filling a Top 10 list was trickier this year than, say, filling the bottom half of a Top 40. Each obsessive ...

Daughtry, Fergie and Akon are among the 2007 chart leaders in the 387 tallies that comprise Billboard's Year in Music & Touring issue, which is on newsstands today (Dec. 14) and online at… By ...

More music can’t be a bad thing, can it? But in this age of information overload, there’s this difficulty: finding the good stuff amid the mountain of crud. The more choices we have, the harder it is ...

Grand Ole Opry star ("Girl on the Billboard.") Jan. 1. Pete Kleinow, 72 Ace steel guitar player with the Flying Burrito Brothers. Jan. 6. Michael Brecker, 57 Versatile tenor saxophonist; won 11 ...

Spanish physical music sales slumped by a record 22.7% in 2007 to 284 million euros ($417.5 million) in wholesale prices, compared to 365.6 million euros ($540 million) in 2006, labels' body… By ...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nielsen SoundScan Canada, the entertainment industry's data information system that tracks point-of-purchase sales of recorded music product, and Nielsen BDS, the music ...

As voted by The A.V. Club's music writers For this year's best-of music poll, we asked the 19 writers who regularly contribute to our music coverage to spread 100 points across their favorite discs.

The holidays are a time of family, schmaltzy Christmas commercials that somehow make you cry and, for music journalists, list-making. Lots and lots of list-making. If you want to parse the exact ...

Given that the word “iPod” has become synonymous with “portable music player,” it’s easy to overlook other Apple-related music matters in 2007. Yet the year brought significant changes to the musical ...