The Daily Music ReportHeadline: Year in review: Hear our podcast on the best songs of 2020 (Rolling Stone) Main Links: The 50 greatest albums of 2020 (Kerrang!) The 20 best albums of 2020 (AV Club) Best new songs right now: 12/18/20 (Revolver) Uproxx music critics poll Aaron Dessner discusses future collaborations with Taylor Swift: “Certainly, it will continue” Lil Wayne unleashes […]
Headline: Primavera sound organizers put on a test COVID-safe festival without social distancing Main Links: 50 best rap albums of 2020 (BrooklynVegan) Your EDM’s top 10 albums of 2020 Tencent-led group doubles its stake in Universal Music Group Kanye West is the second highest-paid celebrity of 2020 but Kylie Jenner has him beat — by […]
Headline: The 100 best songs of 2020 via The Fader Main Links: DIY’s tracks of 2020 15 great jazz albums of 2020 (BroooklynVegan) The 10 best country albums of 2020: Staff picks (Billboard) The 10 best dance albums of 2020: Staff picks (Billboard) Nick Cave shares the detailed process of how he writes lyrics Kaskade […]
Headline: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross announce release of score for Pixar’s Soul Main Links: Bob Dylan’s next big deals: What’s still in play after landmark publishing sale Ringo Starr announces ‘Zoom In’ EP featuring Paul McCartney and Dave Grohl St. Vincent confirms 2021 album release Rosalía has nearly finished working on her new album, […]
Headline: The 50 best albums of 2020 (The Fader) Main Links: Discogs’ best albums of 2020 Pop Smoke named SoundCloud’s most popular artist of 2020 Sharon Osbourne tested positive for COVID-19, was briefly hospitalized Dirty Projectors are starting again Paul McCartney, ‘McCartney III’: Album review St. Vincent says her new album is “locked and loaded […]
Headline: Vicky Cornell: All unreleased Soundgarden music will “see the light of day” Main Links: The 20 best debut albums of 2020 Post Malone, Jack Harlow & Steve Aoki to ring in New Year’s Eve with livestream: Exclusive Eddie Van Halen’s cause of death confirmed Facebook publicly launches its collaborative music video app, Collab Is […]
Headline: BTS named ‘Time’ Magazine’s 2020 Entertainer of the Year Main Links: Watch Run The Jewels’ brilliant reaction to winning NME’s Album of the Year 2020 The 50 best albums of 2020 Richard Corben, ‘Heavy Metal’ & ‘Bat Out of Hell’ illustrator, dead at 80 Radiohead stage collapse engineer found guilty by discipline committee Watch […]
Headline: REPORT: 8 out of 10 music creators earn less than £200 per year from streaming Main Links: Live Nation President feels “very good” about prospect of live music returning next summer Jimmy Page joins calls for fairer payments from streaming services How did Kid Cudi recruit Eminem for ‘The Adventures of Moon Man & […]
Headline: The 100 best songs of 2020: Billboard staff list Main Links: Harold Budd, iconic ambient composer, dead at 84 Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo shares 2,655 unheard demos for his “web programming class final project” David Crosby is preparing to sell his back catalogue: “Streaming stole my record money” Here are the most-searched hip-hop topics of […]
Headline: Our 10 Best Albums of 2020 Main Links: Rest in peace to rappers we’ve lost in 2020 2020 was the year of protest music Bad Bunny makes history with first Spanish-language no. 1 album Universal Music Publishing buys Bob Dylan’s song catalog The 10 people who defined 2020 Paul McCartney says the Beatles struggled […]
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