Glenn Rowley is a freelance writer for GRAMMY.com.
See the full list of winners and nominees from the 2026 Grammys. Watch highlights and exclusive Grammys content from the 2026 Grammys all year long. The Grammys have undeniably always been Music's Biggest Night, but there's an argument its one of fashion's biggest nights, too. Over the years, the Grammys have offered fans an endless display of eye-catching and boundary-pushing…
See the full list of winners and nominees from the 2026 Grammys. Watch highlights and exclusive Grammys content from the 2026 Grammys all year long. Cover art has always been an integral, visual part of experiencing an album. From photoshoots and creative direction to choices of typeface and color, album artwork adds an additional sensory experience to coincide with the…
See the full list of winners and nominees from the 2026 Grammys. Watch highlights and exclusive Grammys content from the 2026 Grammys all year long. First awarded at the 2023 GRAMMYS, Songwriter Of The Year, Non-Classical helps honor some of the most talented people behind music's biggest songs. And as this year's Category proves, there are several songwriters who have…
Happy Halloween! Spooky season reaches fever pitch this week with a batch of new music that includes Outkast's 25th anniversary edition of Stankonia, Big Boogie's Pain of Paper 4, Nightly's THE VOID, Jake Webber's Love Me While You Can, and JP Cooper's Just A Few Folk. Elsewhere, Taylor Swift makes "The Fate of Ophelia (Alone In My Tower Acoustic Version)"…
On a recent Tuesday in New York City, a contingent of ambitious songwriters, artists and composers packed into a screening room in Hudson Yards to learn about music in the worlds of TV and film. The day-long symposium, Beyond The Notes: The Business Of Music In Hollywood, was designed to pull back the curtain on the often intimidating, and sometimes…
Apparently fall is actually a time of renewal because this week's batch of new music is filled with plenty of unexpected comebacks, surprise singles and welcome collaborations. Lily Allen makes a surprise return with West End Girl, BOYNEXTDOOR delivers THE ACTION, Odunsi (The Engine) shushes the crowd with SHHH and Taylor Acorn makes her claim as the Poster Child for…
All-star collaborations seem to be front and center as we get deeper and deeper into October, with this week's batch of new music featuring duets from the realms of pop, country, dance, Afrobeats, and beyond. Meanwhile, as plenty of Bunheads are surely blasting the Halloween-themed TURN OFF THE LIGHT on repeat in honor of spooky season, Kim Petras drops her…
Nearly halfway through October, this week's batch of new music is filled with major, unexpected collaborations, surprise comebacks, anniversary celebrations and new albums and singles galore. The Format launches their long-awaited reunion with "Holy Roller," the lead single off their just-announced comeback album, Boycott Heaven, and Maisie Peters kicks off the roll-out for her own upcoming third studio set with…
For more than two decades, Oct. 3 has been a day to go down in pop culture history — ever since Aaron Samuels turned around in his desk to ask Cady Heron what day it was. In 2025, though, the date also becomes not only a New Music Friday, but also the latest day of mass celebration for Swifties everywhere. …
The leaves have only just started to fall, but new music is arriving in droves with the official arrival of autumn. Mariah Carey delivers her first album of new, original music in seven years with Here For It All, while HARDY turns the amps up to eleven on COUNTRY! COUNTRY!. Christone "Kingfish" Ingram takes the Hard Road on his latest…
As Mariah Carey settles into the Friday night before Labor Day, she's the picture of cozy luxury, eating Chinese food and sipping a glass of wine. And as the superstar asserts, she wouldn't have it any other way: "The Era of Mi is fabulous." Just a few days earlier, the five-time GRAMMY winner had heralded the "Era of Mi" in…
Do you remember the 21st night of September? The classic date famously referenced by Earth, Wind & Fire is just around the corner, and artists of all types are joining the party with musical offerings of their own. RAYE kicks off the era for her hotly anticipated sophomore album with the cheeky demand of lead single "WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!,"…
Caught somewhere in the liminal space between the departure of summer and the arrival of fall, this week's batch of new music is a diverse collection of releases with something for just about everyone. The bounty of new albums includes Ed Sheeran's Play, Ty Dolla $ign's Tycoon, Matteo Bocelli's Falling In Love and Sophie Ellis-Bextor's rather brilliantly titled Perimenopop. TWICE…
Leon Thomas is meeting the moment. After decades of building a reputation as one of the music industry's most in-demand producers, the Brooklyn-born hitmaker's burgeoning solo career has reached new heights — earning his own radio hits, awards show wins and magazine covers and launching a world tour at the end of October. However, before he takes off on that…
We've made it to September, and though summer may be dwindling to a close, the flood of exciting new music shows no sign of slowing. It's been a particularly huge week for K-pop fans, with a litany of new releases including MONSTA X's THE X, NCT WISH'S COLOR - The Third Mini Album, TREASURE's 3rd Mini Album [LOVE PULSE], ZEROBASEONE's…
At the end of July, Ava Max disappeared from the internet. The pop star's final TikTok contained cryptic musings about growth and the passage of time. "Busy over here evolving," she captioned the post before effectively going radio silent across all her social platforms. The online vanishing act was particularly disorienting considering the singer was in the middle of rolling…
Fall may be just around the corner, but plenty of artists and bands aren't quite finished with summer just yet, dropping new albums and singles to help close out the soundtrack of the season. Stray Kids conjure up all kinds of good KARMA on their fourth Korean-language studio set; Laufey follows her GRAMMY-winning 2024 sophomore album Bewitched with A Matter…
Somehow, August is already halfway over, and the midpoint of the month is marked by a cavalcade of albums, giving music lovers a litany of full-length projects to dig into. Conan Gray delivers his third album Wishbone, Rich Brian asks WHERE IS MY HEAD? on his first full-length in six years for 88rising, and Rise Against Ricochet through their follow-up…
The summer heat may be showing no signs of letting up one week into August, but neither does the season's red-hot release schedule of new music. Amaarae shines on Black Star, Bailey Zimmerman stampedes through Different Night Same Rodeo, Big Freedia paints a portrait of gospel-rooted resilience on Pressing Onward, The Black Keys unveil No Rain, No Flowers and Miley…
August is upon us, and female artists reign supreme in the month's first batch of new music thanks to releases by Chappell Roan, Demi Lovato, TWICE and more. Reneé Rapp unveils her sophomore solo album, BITE ME, and Saweetie delivers her latest EP, Hella Pressure. Meanwhile, Maren Morris serves up even more DREAMSICLE with the deluxe edition of her latest…
