One Year After ‘Brat’ Summer, Charli XCX Is Never Out of Season
A defining moment in 2024 was “Brat summer,” the slime-green-coded cultural force inspired by the club-pop sounds and party girl vibes of Charli XCX’s monumental sixth album. Charli was just one of the pop stars to blow up and reach new levels of fame last year, but in the year since Brat’s success, the singer’s wider discography […]
Emmys Ratings a Modest Win Amid a Middling Awards Season
The 77th Emmy Awards just had its most-viewed broadcast in years, definitively reversing course after taking a viewership nosedive during the pandemic.
What Will Drive Music Discovery If TikTok Is Banned?
The question of whether TikTok parent company ByteDance will actually sell its golden goose or let the app go dark in its biggest market has weighed particularly heavily on music creators and fans.
Legislative Help Does Only So Much for Working Musicians
In the face of a revenue slowdown across both recorded and live music, the industry’s main players want to build new income streams and add more value to their creations.
New Luminate Music Forecast Spots Budding Fan Trends
Industry leaders are looking for ways to diversify income streams and restore some of the value music has lost in the digital age.
‘Sinners’ and the Impact of a Movie Soundtrack
One of the biggest movie releases of 2025 so far has been Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s vampire-slashing, Southern Gothic horror-thriller. Given the key role music plays in the film, it’s no surprise that the Sinners Original Motion Picture Soundtrack has enjoyed big streaming numbers — and a few TikTok-viral songs, to boot. But the most unique aspect of Ludwig Göransson’s soundtrack is its […]
Original Recordings or ‘Taylor’s Versions’ … Which Albums Are Swifties Streaming?
Six years after Taylor Swift lost the master rights to her albums with Big Machine Records, the pop megastar finally and fully owns her early catalog as of this May.
How Gen Z Defies Live Music Audience Trends
When it comes to live music, Gen Z stands out from other age groups by spending more on tickets in the U.S.