Some of the biggest music of the year isn't technically from this year. Before 2019 began, every song and album that you'll find on the list below — starting with a late December album and working ...

Over the last decade, pop’s sonic spaces grew isolated and claustrophobic. But this year the pendulum started to swing back toward solidarity, and even a glimpse of optimism. By Jon Pareles Music ...

The artists behind the year’s best songs were teenage pop superstars who came out of nowhere (Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X), established names looking at life and music from the cusp of their thirties ...

For an almost-five-month stretch this year, no musician over the age of 22 could lay claim to the top spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 — one reason it’s easy to view pop right now as a young person’s game.

back in 2009, the Venn diagram of “songs that suck” and “songs that are green” is basically a circle But it has since become clear that this was the year that the changing climate began changing music ...

The 2019 American Music Awards will be broadcast live on ABC from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 24, at 8 p.m. EST The 2019 American Music Awards brought out the biggest stars in ...

2019 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Actor in a Musical Santino Fontana 2019 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Book of a Musical Robert Horn 2019 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Choreography Denis Jones 2019 ...

Our critics chose the best albums of the year — a format that is in an increasingly fragile state in pop music. By Jon Pareles and Jon Caramanica Jon Pareles The best pop of 2019 didn’t try to reach ...

In 2019, Latin music of the twenty-teens came full circle. From the prescient breakthroughs made by the Latinx indie underground to the unprecedented rise of bachata; to the urbanization of regional ...