This week's Greatest Pop Stars podcast is a Great Moments in Pop Star History look at the Coachella year defined by Frank Ocean, EDM and a cartoon-resurrected rap legend.

Besides amazing concerts, highlights of 2012 included Mick Fleetwood finally realizing his dream of opening a restaurant/club on Maui. In an interview in July, Fleetwood Mac’s legendary drummer ...

Nielsen Soundscan says that 2012 overall music purchases were up 3.1 percent and that's the news that most media outlets have focused on. What they missed, however, is that overall sales of albums and ...

With two weekends packed solid for the 2012 music festival, THR takes a look at a crop of freshman performers to catch before they get too big. By Jeff Miller, Mikey O'Connell Coachella Bands to See ...

Psy's single "Gangnam Style" turned 10 years old on July 15. It was released in 2012. The landmark song and music video set records on YouTube, being the first to hit 1 billion views. Psy also helped ...

Sometime soon, when the Village People anthem “YMCA” is played during an inning break in Yankee Stadium, Victor Willis, the lead singer of the ’70s-era disco group, plans to be there. His lawyer, ...

Our main list of the year’s best albums doesn’t just appear out of thin air. It’s tallied from ballots by a group of writers, each of whom is given 100 points to distribute over no more than 20 of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Rock ‘n’ roll brings the headliners, but the tech sector brings the ...

As the embattled music industry continued to morph in 2012, a few trends were clear: Players at the top of heap continued to consolidate, digital distribution and streaming became the rule, not the ...