As India found itself caught in the throes of a bleak lockdown last year, it wasn’t just dalgona coffee, TikTok challenges and our collective disgust for diversion tactics that brought the country ...

A Spotify playlist for self-described losers has gone viral thanks to some bizarre AI-generated animations, but not everyone is enjoying the music or the memes. Here's why the Losercore Playlist is ...

Got a 15-minute car ride? That's about four songs, and you'd better pick them wisely. Music lovers don't just plan the route; ...

The memes that have deepened our relationships with our favorite pop stars for the last two decades and beyond. We think of the iconicity of our favorite 21st century pop stars mostly in terms of the ...

Memes are the future of the music promotion business because they help connect artists with their fans, American professional music critic Anthony Fantano said at an event hosted by the Georgetown ...

Spotify takes the headlines every year when users receive their annual Wrapped stats. However, considering Apple Music dropped their “Replay” lists for users a few days ago that display essentially ...

Country music’s pandemic-era surge has made the genre an increasingly important minter of pop-culture currency. Crossover hits, media placements and surprising streaming numbers tell part of the story ...

Music distributor Too Lost has acquired the full catalog of MAYK, the user-generated content (UGC) music creation platform behind a wave of viral ‘social meme music’ popularized on TikTok and other ...

In April, a TikTok creator mused, "Did I just write the song of the summer?" Girl on Couch's "Looking for a man in finance" song spawned hundreds of remixes, and won her a record deal. While it might ...

In this episode, we challenge all of our stated ideas about the definition of memes and how they operate as a unique unit of cultural information. We’ll cross-examine memes and their relevance and ...

Spanish millennial users on TikTok claim they are not Spanish if they do not know eight mythical songs from their country’s history. Japanese users show their passion for anime by singing any opening ...