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News Articles: Music News

Carrie Underwood is set to perform "America the Beautiful" during President-elect Donald Trump's swearing-in ceremony Monday.

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  • Arts & Life

Here's everyone performing at the presidential inauguration

Unlike Donald Trump's 2017 inauguration, which reportedly struggled to book high-profile performers, several well-known artists will partake in this year's inaugural events.

January 16, 2025
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By:
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

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  • Music News

The Tiny Desk Contest is back for 2025

The Tiny Desk Contest is NPR Music's annual search for the next great undiscovered artist.

January 14, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Carter
Bob Dylan at a press conference in London in 1966.

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  • Music

Bid on the bard: Auction features historic items from Bob Dylan's life

The lot includes about 50 items and features early handwritten drafts for Dylan's hit "Mr. Tambourine Man" as well as photographs, posters and a signed harmonica.

January 14, 2025
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
Starflyer 59's new album is a collection of lullabies titled <em>Déjame Dormir</em>, which means "let me sleep."

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  • Music

Starflyer 59 reimagines three decades of music as lullabies

Starflyer 59's Déjame Dormir strips away layers of distortion and feedback for something soft and sleepy.

January 13, 2025
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By:
  • Lars Gotrich and
  • Scott Detrow
The duet by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars spent four weeks at No. 2 on the Hot 100 in November before being swept out of the top 10 by the annual rush of holiday songs. This week, it finally rises to the top of the chart.

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  • Music

With the holidays over, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga and more stars flood the pop charts

Now that most Christmas songs and albums have been packed away into the proverbial attic, the pop landscape of the new year is coming into focus.

January 11, 2025
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson
Peter Yarrow (left) in the early 1960s with his Peter, Paul and Mary bandmates, Mary Travers and Noel Paul Stookey.

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  • Obituaries

Peter Yarrow of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary has died at 86

Yarrow wrote or co-wrote some of the group's biggest 1960s hits, including "Puff, the Magic Dragon" and "Day Is Done."

January 07, 2025
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  • Jeff Lunden
SZA accepts a Grammy Award for best R&B song for "Snooze" on February 4, 2024. At that point, the album on which "Snooze" appears, <em>SOS</em>, was already 14 months old. This week, nearly 11 months after the Grammys, <em>SOS</em> has returned to the top of the <em>Billboard</em> album chart thanks to the release of a deluxe version.

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  • Music

After nearly two years, SZA's 'SOS' rockets back to the top of the album chart

No album in the history of the Billboard album chart has ever had a longer gap between stints at No. 1. Elsewhere, Christmas music dominates for one last week.

January 02, 2025
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson
Liam Payne performs on ABC's "Good Morning America" at Rumsey Playfield/SummerStage in New York,  Aug. 4, 2015.

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  • Arts & Life

5 people have been charged in the death of Liam Payne

An Argentine judge ordered pretrial detention for two of the charged for suppling Payne with drugs. Prosecutors had filed initial charges against three people in November but didn't reveal their names.

December 30, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
On the albums chart, the K-pop group Stray Kids debuts at No. 1 with <em>HOP</em>; the group has debuted atop the <em>Billboard</em> 200 with its first six charting albums, which is a new record to kick off a career.

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  • Music

Mariah Carey and K-pop group Stray Kids rule this week's charts

Holiday music rules the pop charts once again this week, as Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" scores its 17th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 — the third longest run of all time.

December 27, 2024
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson

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  • Music

In Memoriam 2024: The Musicians We Lost

It takes a village to make the music we love. We remember the singers, songwriters, composers, instrumentalists, producers and journalists that we lost in 2024.

December 26, 2024
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By:
  • Lars Gotrich
Mariah Carey (shown performing in New York City in 2014) released "All I Want For Christmas Is You" in 1994, but it took 25 years for the song to reach the top of <em>Billboard</em>'s Hot 100 pop chart. Since 2019, it has topped the chart each December for a total of 16 weeks at No. 1 — so far.

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  • Music

The season of Christmas songs is here. Will the classics make room for anything new?

'Tis the season for a handful of familiar Christmas songs to monopolize the top spots on the Billboard pop chart. But a few newer songs are making a play to join the annual holiday jukebox.

December 20, 2024
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson
Sean Combs (left) and Jay-Z attend the Los Angeles Lakers vs. Houston Rockets game at Staples Center on May 4, 2009, in Los Angeles.

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  • Music News

Woman who accuses Jay-Z of raping her at 13 shares new details about alleged assault

The woman said that during the alleged assault, she tried to resist but Jay-Z told her to stop. She also acknowledged some inconsistencies in her account but firmly maintained that she was attacked.

December 16, 2024
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
Indian tabala virtuoso Ustad Zakir Hussain performs at a concert at the Indian Music Experience (IME), Indias first interactive music museum, in Bangalore on July 27, 2019.

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  • Obituaries

Zakir Hussain, legendary tabla virtuoso who defied genres, dies at 73

Hussain's career spanned over five decades, during which he was revered as both a national treasure in India and admired worldwide.

December 15, 2024
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
A single Black Friday title — Taylor Swift's Target-exclusive physical editions of <em>The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology</em> — has sent <em>TTPD</em> soaring back to the top of the <em>Billboard</em> 200.

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  • Music

Black Friday sends Taylor Swift back to the top of the charts

Stephen Thompson looks at the biggest songs and albums of the week, and digs into the stories and trends beyond the Top 10.

December 13, 2024
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson
Italian pop singer Mina in 1961 in Cremona, Italy.

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  • Music News

An 84-year-old pop superstar just dropped an album — how does she sound so good?

You might recognize the performer's unmistakable voice from the Netflix series Ripley, the HBO series The White Lotus or the Pixar animated feature Luca. In Italy, she's a legend.

December 11, 2024
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
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