December 5, 2016 • These are the records NPR Music couldn't stop playing this year — ones that speak to a moment and a lifetime, ones that party, ones that exist in their own worlds. December 5, 2016 ...

From Ariana Grande to Beyoncé to Zayn, we’re taking a look back at the best pop music had to offer in 2016. The “Formation” video’s surprise debut dropped a lot of jaws, for a host of different ...

Country music's stars brought their A-game in 2016 when it came to music videos. In other words, this 2016 list of country music's best music videos could've been a mile long. However, the following ...

When you consider the veritable dumpster fire that the past few years in country music have really been — perhaps Nashville was just preparing us for the horror show that was 2016 — there’s a whole ...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: True of the French Revolution and the 2016 American Music Awards. Look back at some of the best and worst moments form the 2016 AMAs below, and let ...

The 2016 iHeartRadio Music Awards included many memorable performances and featured some of the industry's biggest stars. The third-annual show, hosted by Jason Derulo, was held at The Forum in ...

In a year dominated by the deaths of legends such as David Bowie, Prince, Maurice White and Leonard Cohen, a lot of good new music flew under the radar in 2016. And while larger-than-life personas ...

The 2016 American Music Awards brought out the biggest names in music Sunday night at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater. The awards, which were co-hosted by Gigi Hadid and Jay Pharoah, were full of show ...

So many historical figures and famous artists died in 2016, we often had to be reminded that years do not kill people. Every facet of public life saw prominent losses: John Glenn, Fidel Castro, ...

While past years have brought plenty of deaths in the music industry, in 2016 we sure seemed to lose a lot of icons. The year had barely begun as many music lovers purchased David Bowie’s 25th album, ...

The year 2016 hasn't been an ordinary one, as The Boot's countdown of country music's best new songs of 2016 proves; after all, it isn't every year that Beyonce makes an appearance on a country ...