In the wake of Chappell Roan's call-to-arms Grammys speech, stars like Charli xcx and Noah Kahn have begun donating funds to help uninsured artists. That’s great — but labels still need to step up.

Before LaFace Records and So So Def Recordings, there was Black Swan Records, a record company by Georgian Harry Pace that released music by Black artists for Black listeners.

With a new label home (after four years with Universal Music Group) and an EP dropping tonight, the artist proves again that “girls is players too.” ...

Payne had also started a rehab program that March but did not finish it. He relapsed in April, according to a legal statement ...

To give the label a bit of credit, favoring “Please Please Please” wasn’t an awful instinct: The song was the only Billboard ...

The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, a new book from the journalist Liz Pelly, the playlist is the ...

Irv Gotti, the boisterous, smiley music mogul who founded Murder Inc. Records and was behind major hip-hop and R&B artists, ...

The rapper’s overall streams on Spotify increased by nearly 175 percent, with the award-winning diss track seeing the largest ...

Ava Porten was "forced" by her parents to take piano lessons when she was five years old, but developed a passion for singing ...

“It’s so important that these record labels, these studios, these TV studios, these big production companies make it a part of the contract when you sign on to do something that’s going to change your ...

Kendrick Lamar, one of hip-hop’s most venerated artists for the past decade, performed “Not Like Us,” a diss track aimed at ...

Since her Grammys appearance, Roan has donated $25,000 to Backline, a nonprofit that provides mental health and wellness resources to musicians. Charli XCX and Noah Kahan have pledged to match Roan’s ...