Three bright spots in a record industry that continued to dim in 2014: digital streaming, old-fashioned vinyl and the human supernova known as Taylor Swift. Overall album sales fell 11% last year to ...

Was the music of 2014 heavier than usual, or is it just us? When the staff of NPR Music and our member station partners gather to collect our favorite albums of the year, we don't start out with a ...

Photo illustration by Ellie Skrzat. Photos by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for iHeartMedia, Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images, Adam Bettcher/Getty Images for iHeartMedia, and Adam Bettcher/Getty Images ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nielsen, the music industry's leading data information provider today released the 2014 U.S. Music year-end report for the 12-month period of December 30, 2013 through ...

"I think we can teach a younger generation about an investment in music, not just the ephemeral consumption of it" By Erin Strecker, Billboard Taylor Swift Billboard Women in Music H 2014 “Being named ...

How will we remember the music of 2014? All Songs Considered starts off NPR Music's year-end coverage by discussing themes that surfaced again and again: new discoveries, best live shows, saddest ...

"It's really cool to be at a music industry event where over half the people in the room have vaginas" By Erin Strecker, Billboard Charli XCX Billboard Women in Music H 2014 “I for one am so excited ...

My comrades in headphone-rash ears and achy-breaky fingers, As we reach the climactic stretch of our 2014 rear-view, I feel torn about all the sonic highways we have not yet traveled. Dave Grohl: ...

When I started writing this, a line of teens, most of them black, were marching down the sidewalk on Myrtle Avenue, in Brooklyn, on a cold December afternoon. They were holding up signs and chanting, ...

In 2014, music videos became increasingly prominent, not just on YouTube (where the most popular entry on our list has nearly 400 million views) and television (where a handful of networks keep them ...

Joaquin Phoenix, left, and Owen Wilson star in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Inherent Vice," which has one of our favorite soundtracks from 2014. (Warner Bros.) While I've still got a handful of movies from ...