Find out how Kendrick Lamar, Cardi B, JAY-Z, Taylor Swift and more stack up in a year packed with big releases and bigger moments. DAMN. it was a good year for music. It didn’t always feel that way, ...

Looking for a common thread for the best rap songs of 2017, it almost seems more daunting than it really is. There is tremendous diversity there, so much so that it seems almost like they have nothing ...

YouTube has announced the most viewed music videos of 2017. Sitting at No. 1 is "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, the global reggaeton smash that proved so popular, it toppled Psy's “Gangnam ...

Editor’s note: The point of more extensive genre lists is to help give shine to albums that wouldn’t make it into the overall best albums list. So, we’ve opted to leave the albums that appeared on the ...

Many music videos are slick, soulless, product-placement-crammed promos, but some transcend crass commercialism and stand alone as true works of visual art. Here, in ascending order of amazingness, ...

Before you set your sights on New Year’s Eve and 2018, take a moment to look back at the year’s best in pop music videos. In 2017, a mix of sure-thing artists (Taylor Swift, “Look What You Made Me Do” ...

The best country music videos of 2017 span from paper animations to action movies, from silly to heartbreaking and from clips from bands bands to clips from duos to clips from single artists. All of ...

Earlier this year Microsoft announced it would be shutting down the streaming and purchasing components of its Groove Music service. Failing to gain traction over rivals, a partnership with Spotify ...

Politics permeated our culture in 2017. It wasn’t just on our news channels, it was in our professional sports, our awards shows and late-night talk shows, and in our pop music. Not all the political ...

Music writers spend their days guiltily staring down literally dozens of unheard new recordings that pile up as the year goes on, with more coming in each day. So it has been an arduous and ...

With 2017 coming to a close, it's time to open up The Boot's country music yearbook and dole out some superlatives. Throughout this year, these artists have really stood out. The Boot's staff opened ...