For almost 13 years, Billboard charts have also been based on YouTube's music streaming. Opinions differ on the weighting.

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I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

Boston metalcore icons Converge have announced their first non-collaborative album in nearly nine years. Love Is Not Enough arrives February 13 via Deathwish Inc. and Epitaph Records. Leading the LP ...

It's Friday, it's mid-November, and the weekly deluge of new albums felt like it was finally starting to slow down as we approach the holidays — until we looked at our Nov. 14 list of LPs, EPs, ...

When running spotdl to download a playlist and appending the --fetch-albums I expected a download of all albums with a song in the playlist and an m3u file with just the original playlist songs in it.

The 1980s might be the easiest decade to caricature. But the best ’80s albums prove that the decade wasn't just about big hair, big shoulder pads, and even bigger mobile phones—and that the era's ...

The best AC/DC albums are simply the archetypal sound of hard rock. Whereas those that came before them made their name on bells and whistles—technicolor solos, outrageous displays of confidence, ...

Many of the paired dances of the twentieth century—the foxtrot, the waltz, the Lindy Hop—reflected the binary gender dynamics of the day: men led and women followed, on the dance floor as at home.

The news that Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl has recorded the biggest sales week for any album ever is an astonishing milestone in the annals of e-commerce. Swift’s fame ensured that the album ...