Researchers found TikTok and Spotify create very different hit songs, showing how streaming platforms influence what music goes viral.

What makes a song become a hit today? While listeners certainly play a role, new research suggests that streaming platforms and their algorithms also have a powerful influence on which songs rise to ...

Tik-Tok, the video-sharing social networking service is changing hip-hop as we know it. While the genre itself has only been in existence for about 48 years, Tik Tok is unintentionally changing ...

The rhythmic sound of the guacharaca, the low pitch of the accordion, and the thudding of the bass drum have always characterized the sound of Latin America. Cumbia used to be the music of the coastal ...