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Music recommendations, industry developments, and other music coverage from Vox.

With “Dynamite,” BTS beat the US music industry at its own cheap game

By Aja Romano

Beyoncé and Taylor Swift lead the 2021 Grammy nominees

By Allegra Frank

BTS’s new album is sublime comfort pop for the soul in lockdown

By Aja Romano

One Good Thing: The dark pop pleasures of Selena Gomez’s Rare

By Emily St. James

Why Britney Spears’s fans are convinced she’s being held captive

By Constance Grady

One Good Thing: Neil Cicierega is the internet’s merriest prankster. His new album delights.

By Emily St. James

How Vienna’s opera houses are staying open in the pandemic

By Julia Belluz

Why Beethoven’s 5th Symphony matters in 2020

By Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding

How Beethoven’s 5th Symphony put the classism in classical music

By Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding

Beethoven’s 5th Symphony is a lesson in finding hope in adversity

By Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding

Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, explained

By Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding

Why Mulan’s “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” became a pump-up playlist must-have

By Constance Grady

One Good Thing: I’m obsessed with the latest Phoebe Bridgers album

By Emily St. James

Britney Spears wants her father to permanently step down as her conservator

By Constance Grady

Why Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” is actually a public health triumph

By Alex Abad-Santos

Meet the African goddess at the center of Beyoncé’s Black Is King

By Constance Grady

Black Is King is Beyoncé’s stunning ode to African glory

By Allegra Frank

Taylor Swift is the millennial Bruce Springsteen

By Emily St. James

The queering of Taylor Swift

By Aja Romano

The 6 songs that explain Taylor Swift’s new album, Folklore

By Allegra Frank

How Taylor Swift reset her image with Folklore

By Constance Grady

How K-pop fans are weaponizing the internet for Black Lives Matter

By Aja Romano

Recording the Company cast album was infamously hellish. This cult favorite doc captured it all.

By Aja Romano

Run the Jewels’ new album is shocking, funny, relentless — and 2020’s most required listening

By Allegra Frank

“I’m a bit of an overwriter”: How Carly Rae Jepsen whittled 200 songs down to 12

By Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan

The coronavirus pandemic shut down live music. Now fans just want their money back.

By Allegra Frank

A beginner’s guide to K-pop

By Aja Romano

Rock and roll icon Little Richard has died at 87

By Allegra Frank

New Beyoncé, a Netflix teen rom-com, and other stuff we loved this week

By Jen Trolio, Alex Abad-Santos, and 3 more

Megan Thee Stallion’s “Hot Girl Summer” is the dark horse song of quarantine

By Alexa Lee

Sunday’s virtual Sondheim concert was the most cathartic experience of quarantine so far

By Constance Grady, Aja Romano, and 1 more

This weekend's coolest concert is happening in Fortnite

By Allegra Frank

Fiona Apple’s new album sounds like 2020 feels

By Emily St. James

The mythology behind the Tiger King’s country music

By Charlie Harding

How “quarantine concerts” are keeping live music alive as venues remain closed

By Allegra Frank

Little Mix is the best girl group in the world. It’s time America gave them a listen.

By Alex Abad-Santos

Dua Lipa’s hopeful Future Nostalgia is dance-pop brilliance 

By Alex Abad-Santos

MyNoise brings you realistic “soundscapes” from the outside world

By Emily St. James

Newly leaked footage shows Taylor Swift and Kanye West talking “Famous”

By Constance Grady

Legendary country star Kenny Rogers has died at 81

By Constance Grady