Iran's hard-line president has banned all Western music from the country's state radio and television stations. It's a reminder of the 1979 Islamic revolution, when popular music was outlawed as ...

“Seven” by Jungkook and Latto is the most streamed song of Jungkook’s career, and in just over a year and a half, it has outstreamed every single song by BTS, Jungkook’s original group, over their ...

English music lost ground last year. Not to other English artists, but to singers Western audiences can’t even understand. Peso Pluma racked up 1.9 billion streams in 2023, singing Mexican corridos.

Steve Cormier is fond of saying he doesn’t write “ride into the sunset songs.” What Cormier, a veteran Western musician, means is that the cowboy songs he pens are rooted in the life of actual, ...

Thirteen-year-old Phoebe White taught herself to yodel when she was 8. Known as Phoebe the Yodeling Cowgirl, she's won 24 talent competitions and her album is number seven on the Western music chart.

Western pop music has always been influenced by artists and styles from around the world. A new book aims to give those varied influences — all of them — their due. Special correspondent Tom Casciato ...

“Niche Bach, sondern Meer!” (Not a brook, but an ocean!) – opinion of Johann Sebastian Bach and pun by Ludwig van Beethoven On March 31, 1685, Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Holy Roman ...

In this final article of the series on India's evolving jazz landscape, we examine the growing role of contemporary Western music education in shaping new generations of musicians. For generations, ...