Since concerts were canceled for the majority of the year, music videos became even more vital than usual in 2020. Making videos was one of the only ways that artists could build worlds around their ...

Tracks responding to real-time events and a spectrum of moods captured the hodgepodge feelings of life in lockdown. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles No short list can sum ...

In 2020, there were many ways to understand the year in music; this week, we're considering four. One of the most striking ways we'll remember the music of 2020 — a year of serious social reckoning, ...

It's been a wild year for TikTok, the short-form video app that's proven to have a powerful tendency to spark trends, catapult songs onto the charts, and provide endless hours of distraction. TikTok's ...

YouTube, long renowned for its vast video library, has quietly established itself as a formidable music streaming service. Its dedicated app, YouTube Music, offers a curated collection of songs, ...

Narrowing down any kind of list of music videos usually means separating the meaningful expressions of musical ideas from the flashy gimmicks. The best ones that you’ll see below manage to work in ...

While the pandemic forced us all inside this year, some of our favorite artists kept us distracted and lifted our spirits by breaking new ground with their visuals. Whether tiptoeing into Cardi B and ...

Welcome to a whopper of a mixtape. If you've been living under the rock 2020 dropped on all of us back in March and spent the last nine months finding comfort in the sounds of your childhood (hell, ...

What song defined your year? This is always a difficult question to answer, but in 2020, it’s even more challenging. Some years, you can take the easy way out and just pick the song that you heard at ...