Determining the “best” – or most zeitgeisty – music of 2015 seems straightforward at first. The hard numbers of sales, downloads, streams, and billboard charts seem to do all the work for us. But do ...

2015 was a good year for streaming services, according to Nielsen’s year-end Music report out now. In 2015, on-demand streaming services grew to 317 billion streams – that’s a doubling from 2014, ...

Streaming is now the biggest revenue stream for the music industry in the US, generating $2.4 billion in 2015. The RIAA has released its report on the state of the US music industry in 2015, and ...

In just a few weeks, NPR Music will publish its 500th concert recorded live at the famed Tiny Desk — in fact, in 2015 alone, we've put out a whopping 84 of them. Winnowing those 84 down to the 15 you ...

Mozart In The Jungle: The Amazon series that portrays a fictitious New York orchestra, led by a charismatic Gael García Bernal, ruffled a few classical purists and sparked enough interest to merit a ...

Just days into 2015, country music lost Little Jimmy Dickens, the face of the Grand Ole Opry and one of the genre's most charismatic performers. Even now, as the year comes to a close, his loss ...