It's a slow release day to start the new year, so this week NPR Music's Stephen Thompson brings us an abbreviated episode highlighting a few of the new albums you might have missed in December. Artists and albums featured in this episode:- Pink Floyd,

Record labels' deals with AI music generation platforms bring more questions than answers heading into a crucial 2026.

Teddy Swims was able to continue his 2024 success into 2025. He toured the world, broke records on the Billboard chart with the longevity of his song "Lose Control," became a dad, released collaborations with DJ David Guetta and country star Thomas Rhett, earned another Grammy nomination and sang at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

Counting down some personal favorites, including a major rap tour, the sublime bridge in a breakup song and Timothée Chalamet’s rapping.

BTS is returning from a multi-year hiatus with a new album followed by a world tour, according to Reuters . “March 20 Comeback Confirmed,” the K-pop group’s agency Big Hit Music said in a post Thursday, marking the boy band’s first studio album since 2020’s Be .

Today's music streaming services are experiencing stalled growth. 2026 will bring clues about what will succeed them.

Richard Smallwood, a gospel singer and recording artist nominated eight times for Grammy Awards, has died. Smallwood died Tuesday of complications of kidney failure at a rehabilitation and nursing center in Sandy Spring, Maryland, his representative Bill ...

The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, wrote music of profoundly shadowed seriousness, and her ironically titled opera of violence and grief joins the genre’s long roster of tragedies. A school shooting is involved, its long tail of aftershocks ennobled by a gorgeously gloomy score. Joyce DiDonato stars.

Meteorologist Emmett Rice forecasts the weather for NewsChannel 7 viewers, but behind the scenes, he’s creating music and pursuing a dual career path.

No, despite any social media posts you may have seen, MTV did not shut down in the U.S. — it's only music channels in the U.K. that were affected.