This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

Long before the first prayer was said at the Heroes Park of the Baba Yara Sports Stadium, Daddy Lumba had already spoken as ...

YouTube has revealed which songs were the most popular in Korea this year! On December 3, YouTube Korea wrapped up 2025 by releasing several year-end lists that looked back at trends from the past ...

Some years, a handful of songs dominate our playlists, festival stages and social media trends. In others, the playing field feels a lot more level, greatness more evenly distributed. The last 12 ...

Year-end festivities are well underway here at Stereogum. We've published our lists of 2025's best albums and songs, and we launched our annual readers' poll, the Gummy Awards. Now it's time to get ...

The family head of the late Daddy Lumba, Abusuapanin Kofi Owusu, has expressed relief and satisfaction following a significant court ruling in his favour. In a viral video shared on social media on ...

When Raul Malo, the frontman of the Mavericks, died Monday after a battle with cancer, one of the world’s most dynamic, emotional voices was silenced. Anyone who had witnessed him perform live, either ...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year for music publications: year-end list season. On Billboard, we spent all of Tuesday (Dec. 9) rolling out our year-end charts, and the next two days revealing ...

Christmas hasn't started until you've heard Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You - but it might surprise you to know she's not the highest Christmas earner. Though the 'Queen of Christmas' ...

Christmastime is unofficially "Mariah Carey Season," as the pop star's ubiquitous Christmas hit, "All I want For Christmas," is the most-streamed Christmas song of all time, according to Forbes. But ...

The drama over the final funeral rites of the late highlife icon, Charles Kwadwo Fosu, popularly known as Daddy Lumba, continues as another suit has been filed to prevent the funeral from happening.

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...