How Music Charts

Earlier this year, BTS made headlines by announcing they would not submit their music to the 2027 Grammys for consideration. Having just dropped ARIRANG (2026), their first LP in four years (and the first after their hiatus due to

While the nepo baby discourse kickstarted by New York Magazine in 2022 initially focused on Hollywood actors, several well-connected musicians are also proving this year that it's not what you know, b...

As KATSEYE’s arena-rave world tour storms its way across America, having already hit the UK and Europe, a bubbling trend has reached boiling point: the K-pop universe – once synonymous with trap beats and cute-coded production – has entered its hard dance ...

Depending on who you ask, the success or failure of an album can be completely determined by the first twenty four hours of its release. In hypercompetitive stan Twitter circles, first-day streams for a single or an album are often used as the sole benchmark for success. These accounts meticulously

Germany's clubs have absorbed foreign sounds before and made them their own. A new data report suggests it may be happening again — this time with afro house — at the same moment techno, the genre most closely tied to Berlin's identity as a clubbing capital, is finding a second life on TikTok.

A joint report from the music-analy...