The global music industry hit 4.8 trillion streams in 2024, a new single-year record, Luminate’s 2024 Year-End Report found.

BTS’s "Dynamite" (2020) has become the first K-pop song to reach 2 billion streams on Spotify, the world’s largest streaming ...

ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” is now the sole highest charting hit by an act prominent in K-pop on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart.

rigorous beauty of everything a song can be. Jon Pareles has been The Times’s chief pop music critic since 1988. He studied music, played in rock, jazz and classical groups and was a college ...