And up-and-comers announced their arrivals with stellar, often outside-the-box, albums, including Kaitlin Butts’ Oklahoma!-inspired concept LP, Shaboozey’s Western hip-hop, and Zach Top’s Ni ...

Streaming has mutated the album as a format over the past decade, lengthening tracklists, shifting where likely hits get placed, and chipping away at song runtimes. But this year, artists seemed ...

The 1974 Rolling Stone Music Awards gave the best-album honors to Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Jackson Browne, and the Stones, while the Single of the Year was George McCrae’s disco banger “Rock ...

Whether it was debut albums from Elliott Smith, Portishead, OutKast and Jeff Buckley, or mid-career gems from R.E.M., Nick Cave and Joni Mitchell, or beloved genre staples from Alan Jackson ...

Not only is the Grammy-winning Disney alum on track to unleash new music to the masses in 2025, but Something Beautiful is also set to be a visual album. “The visual component of this is driving ...

In coming up with 10 best album lists, each of Variety‘s staff music writers felt 2024 brought an embarrassment of riches from which to choose. You could already see that in how the upcoming ...

Here are the 51 best rock and metal albums of 2024. Each year, quite literally thousands of new records are released within the ever-widening scope of heavy music, from newcomers in the ...

Over the next five weeks, New Album Fix, presented by Matt Everitt, will explore each of the albums This wide-ranging list shows the breadth of our presenters’ tastes across the network and ...

THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR GOSPEL ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

Vince Gill and Amy Grant, ‘When I Think of Christmas’ This album cover image released by MCA Nashville shows “When I Think of Christmas” by Amy Grant and Vince Gill. (MCA Nashville via AP ...

All the big guns were out in force: Taylor, Beyoncé and Kendrick melted the internet with new albums, while artists like Charli xcx, Sabrina Carpenter and Zach Bryan hit new levels of fame.