Coldplay claim the best-selling CD album of 2024 with Moon Music as the UK decline of CD sales slows. Official Charts Company data can reveal that the British group’s 10th studio album shifted ...

A rumored new Morgan Wallen album would keep the momentum rolling for the Nashville superstar who defines this era. The old-school formula of announcing a release date ahead of time and setting up ...

Acclaim flowed to artists who defied genre, distribution conventions, and the very format of the album: Cindy Lee’s two-hour rock epic was released via GeoCities, Mk.Gee blended hair metal and ...

Part pop record, part zeitgeist moment. (This album spawned its own idiom: “Brat summer”.) In an age of focus-grouped relatability, the British singer-songwriter is refreshingly brash—and ...

THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR GOSPEL ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

We asked Boston Globe music writers to tell us 50 of their favorite albums of 2024, and the results range from folk pop to death metal to cumbia to pop. We hope you spot some of your favorites on ...

In 2024, the most memorable country albums were the projects that fell on one end or the other of a stylistic extreme. Some of the biggest splashes came from young-gun traditionalists, who ...

What moved the Herald entertainment columnist’s dial this year? When thinking about the best albums of this year I kept writing down local albums. It began to feel a little xenophobic.

1970 may have marked a new decade, at least on the calendar, but as you'll see in the list of 1970's Best Rock Albums below, it was still pretty much the '60s as far as the music was concerned.

Two of country music's top male artists of the 21st century have new albums planned for 2025. You'll also find new projects from a heralded duo, country music's quietest crossover star ...

We’ve had long-running artists finally break through (hello, Chappell Roan), what felt like the longest and most carefully calculated album roll-out of all time (Charli, we’re looking at you ...