I closed my Last.fm account in 2019 and didn't think anything of it, until I signed back up recently. Right away, it felt like I was catching up with an old friend who had some new stories to tell me.

Speakers, like the one above this grocery store checkout aisle, stream oldies designed to influence your shopping habits. Credit: Photo by Jesse Sendejas Jr. If you’re in the grocery store today, ...

All the growth in the music business now comes from old songs — how did we get here, and is there a way back? The new music market is actually shrinking. All the growth in the market is coming from ...

When host Peter O’Dowd asked his 13-year-old daughter what songs are popular on TikTok right now, she responded with “Put Your Head On My Shoulder” by Paul Anka from 1959. Music writer Ted Gioia has ...

“I don’t know if we could’ve written it ourselves—it took a risk maybe we aren’t willing to.” “I know this isn’t the technical way to explain it, but this allowed us to find melodies hidden in between ...

In the past few months, entire (or almost entire) catalogs from musicians like Bob Dylan, Whitney Houston, The Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, ZZ Top, and about a dozen more have sold from ...