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A Music Lover’s Guide to Atlanta

For decades, Atlanta has been a major musical hub, nurturing an array of Southern acts who have set trends and topped Billboard charts. It’s the city that developed and commercialized trap music, which has made global waves even outside of rap music. The city’s impact extends beyond trap, though. Atlanta has long been a place […]

‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Soundtrack Slays With Chart-Topping Debut

The soundtrack to the Netflix animated film KPop Demon Hunters becomes the highest debuting soundtrack of 2025 on the Billboard 200 chart, bowing at No. 8, while it also enters at No. 1 on the Soundtracks chart (both lists dated July 5). On the latter, the album is the first soundtrack from a Netflix show […]

5 Must-Hear New Country Songs: Ella Langley, HARDY, Old Dominion & More

This week’s crop of new music features an Ella Langley/HARDY collaboration that comes with a powerful plot twist, while Old Dominion offers up a nuanced, transparent look at love and legacy. Elsewhere, newcomer Trey Pendley brings a stone-cold country barroom singalong, while Gavin Adcock’s latest finds him reminiscing about wild nights on the town, and […]

UMG Acquisition of Downtown Risks ‘Two-Tier Music Market,’ Warns WIN CEO

Calls are intensifying for European regulators to halt Universal Music Group’s proposed $775 million acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings. In a lengthy open letter to European Commission Vice-President and Competition Commissioner Teresa Ribera, Noemí Planas, CEO of the Worldwide Independent Network, joins forces with fellow independent music organizations — IMPALA, AIM and UFi — urging […]