Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matthew Leimkuehler is a music journalist from Nashville, Tennessee. 2024 may be remembered as the year of “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” ...

Was there a new song in 2024 that hit you particularly hard? Maybe it was one you listened to on repeat, ugly cried to, or one that just spoke to you and connected with you unlike any other song this ...

The Billboard Hot 100 is trapped in some kind of purgatory, as it's topped by the same 10 songs as last week, albeit in a different order. A beneficiary of this stagnation is the song that's at No. 1 ...

With nearly 20 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and a quintuple-platinum certification in the U.S. alone, Shaboozey’s genre-blurring “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is the biggest hit of 2024. It’s a ...

Back in the day, you knew a song was a hit when you heard it everywhere. Well, at what passed for everywhere back in the day: blasting from open windows, backyards, cars, stores, boomboxes, maybe ...

Megan Thee Stallion brought her venomous Megan album era to the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on Wednesday night with a massive medley that included “BOA,” “B.A.S.,” “Hiss,” and “Mamushi.” Her ...