It's the first time Wallen is the year's top artist, and he's the first male country act to achieve the feat in more than 30 years.

Metallica celebrated a major career milestone in May, when their 1991 album Metallica was certified Double Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It was just the 14th album ...

We love those classic Christmas recordings. And we cherish the chance to hear Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, the Beach Boys, Darlene Love and other greats sing these standards each ...

"It’s quite amazing to us that this collection of songs still stands up today, some forty years later," Midge Ure tells ...

Released at the height of the 1980s, Def Leppard’s Hysteria helped redefine rock albums through scale, sound, and lasting ...

The Beatles’ 1969 masterpiece delivers innovative production and start-to-finish magic, keeping it ranked among the 20th century’s greatest album.

Lana Del Rey's Born to Die is now the longest-charting album by a solo female musician in U.S. history as the set lives on ...

If 1994 was among the greatest years in rock and roll history, then 1995 should undoubtedly take the mantle for rap music. The decade welcomed the emergence and canonizations of alt-metal, ambient, ...

The year 2025 made a strong argument for the answer being “yes.” Acclaimed sets from rising stars like Addison Rae and Amaarae established them as leading voices without producing a huge chart hit, ...

Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen, and Adele have had multiple albums spend double-digit weeks atop the Billboard 200 chart, a rare ...

Here's the main thing you need to know about our ranked list of the 15 best diamond-selling hard rock and metal albums: They're all damn good. Are you surprised? History is littered with platinum ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...