Kingfishr’s hit track Killeagh is the biggest song in a single year this decade by any artist, new figures from the Irish ...

Afrobeats superstar Burna Boy has set a new continental record after emerging as the most streamed African artist on Spotify in 2025, amassing nearly 2 billion streams within the year.Spotify’s 2025 ...

Burna Boy closed 2025 with the biggest streaming year ever for an African artist on Spotify, hitting nearly 2 billion streams ...

To almost no-one's surprise, Taylor Swift dominated the UK music charts in 2025. The star's 12th album, The Life of a ...

Bohemian Rhapsody, the biopic about legendary band Queen, will rock audiences when it finds its way to a new streaming home in the new year.

Cutting corners: A massive pirate archive has surfaced that appears to contain nearly every song ever streamed on Spotify, along with data covering almost the platform's entire catalog. The breach ...

The world’s largest shadow library—which is increasingly funded by AI developers—shocked the Internet this weekend by announcing it had “backed up Spotify” and started distributing 300 terabytes of ...

The 2009 remastered version of this gorgeous, sunshine tune from Abbey Road remains the band’s most-streamed song of all time at 1,728,728,044 streams, with approximately 498,878 streams daily. It’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Mariah Carey is having an absolutely fantastic week career-wise. In ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...

Christmastime is unofficially "Mariah Carey Season," as the pop star's ubiquitous Christmas hit, "All I want For Christmas," is the most-streamed Christmas song of all time, according to Forbes. But ...

Connie Francis was 87 years old when she posted her first TikTok earlier this year, marveling at an impossible second act: A song she’d recorded in 1962 — the year of the Cuban missile crisis — was ...