Taylor Swift lands the UK’s biggest vinyl album of 2024 with The Tortured Poets Department. Taylor’s 11th studio album tops the list with 112,000 units sold on wax, the highest yearly figure ...

The Top Albums chart is France’s main albums chart, compiled by Official Charts Company for SNEP and SCPP, based on sales, airplay and streams in France. View the full chart here.

As the year comes to an end, we’re paying tribute to our favorite albums and songs released across our favorite genres. This week, we tackled the very best K-pop songs of 2024, and today we’ve ...

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Beyoncé walks a country mile in Nancy Sinatra’s boots, The Cure drop one of their best albums after a 16-year wait, MJ Lenderman dares to challenge the milkshake/smoothie dichotomy. These are ...

SINGAPORE – Jennie, a member of K-pop girl group Blackpink, will release her first solo studio album in 2025. The 28-year-old made the announcement in a 4½-minute video which went live on ...

We recently looked at the 50 best punk albums of 2024 (including some hardcore), and then 15 great screamo releases from this year, and now here’s a list of our favorite hardcore albums and EPs ...

SEOUL – K-pop boy band Stray Kids marked a historic milestone by ranking No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for the sixth time with their latest album Hop. The octet are the first act in the 69 ...

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Songs of a Lost World is reflective of a great band’s undeniable evolution and true artistry. It is elegant, gut-wrenching, and indisputably authentic—an absolute masterpiece. The album doesn ...