The chart is full is full of old music and classic songs are dominating streaming services. But why?

In an era when technology threatens the art of songwriting and production, 'old' music matters now more than ever. Those ...

Pulp released More in June 2025 and collected its first UK No. 1 album since This Is Hardcore in 1998. The record was also ...

Everybody loves a good oldie but goodie, but is it so much that new music is suffering? Let’s find out. A guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music3.0. There’s a lot of great data and observations in that ...

All the growth in the music business now comes from old songs — how did we get here, and is there a way back? The new music market is actually shrinking. All the growth in the market is coming from ...

The unpredictability of TikTok-spurred viral success has resulted in countless contemporary acts seeing older songs take off while their newer material hangs in limbo. By Elias Leight In the summer of ...

For those who haven’t noticed, there’s been a rush on legendary artists’ musical catalogs recently. In the past few months, entire (or almost entire) catalogs from musicians like Bob Dylan, Whitney ...

This week on The Ringer Music Show, Charles Holmes chats with producer Justin Sayles about writer Ted Gioia’s Atlantic article “Is Old Music Killing New Music?” (0:00). The duo discusses whether ...