It’s a little mo’ money for Zo. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s shelved rap career got a boost from his 2025 mayoral campaign, his tax documents show — but he didn’t exactly bust a move into the big time. The ...

Spotify’s payouts rose by more than 10% from 2024, outpacing the roughly 4% growth reported by other music services, according to the company. Independent artists and labels accounted for about half ...

We’re told that AI was inescapable in pop music this year, but I escaped just fine. In July, when journalists revealed that the Velvet Sundown, a rising new rock quartet on Spotify, was, in fact, a ...

Every month, The FADER's Vivian Medithi showcases all the standout rap songs from the past 30-ish days in one unranked list. Recently, Lil Uzi Vert inked a new deal with Roc Nation Distribution and ...

Ricky Cornish is the Entertainment Editor for Equal Pride, where he’s covering the biggest queer stories in pop culture for Out Magazine, Them, The Advocate, Pride.com, Plus Magazine, and Out Traveler ...

The top country albums of 2025 are so different from each other that it seems like the only thing they have in common is that they fall under the same umbrella genre. But there is one thing these ...

If 2024 was the year of the situationship album (and, yes, there are still plenty that dropped thereafter), then 2025 was the year we danced through the fire. The hypnotic, high-tempo momentum of this ...

Carmela walking into Holsten’s diner to kick off the final scene of The Sopranos. Marissa shooting Trey on The O.C. Some of the biggest moments in TV history land that much harder because of the songs ...

As 2025 comes to an end, The Sunday Special is looking back on the year in culture. This week, we’re listening to the songs and albums that defined the year, for better or worse. Gilbert Cruz is ...

A multilayered political thriller, a dark-comedy salute to radical resistance, a ping-pong picaresque and a bluesy vampire tale set in Jim Crow Mississippi are among THR film reviewers’ favorites of ...

Recently, in casual conversations, I’ve been asked for my opinion about the October report that “No Rap Songs Are in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the First Time Since 1990” more so than my ...

Stream this list on Apple Music and Spotify. See The FADER's 50 best songs of 2025. In a chronically online, AI-slop-embedded hellscape, Don’t Tap the Glass is Tyler, the Creator’s surprise social ...