While streams of new music — releases from the last 18 months — were down from last year, one genre is on the rise: Christian ...

Ahead of the full reveal on Dec. 9 – after the Billboard 2025 No. 1s Livestream hosted by Druski – check out a pair of year-end Christian & gospel top 10s. By Keith Caulfield All of Billboard’s 2025 ...

The streaming platform also announced several updates to its Replay feature, making a strong push to rival Spotify’s year-end Wrapped feature. By Nicole Fell Assistant Editor Apple Music has unveiled ...

Some years, a handful of songs dominate our playlists, festival stages and social media trends. In others, the playing field feels a lot more level, greatness more evenly distributed. The last 12 ...

"We all need more light today. We need more positivity. We need family and faith, hope and strength — that's what these stories are all about." Those are the words of SQuire Rushnell and Louise DuArt, ...

Forrest Frank is speaking out against AI-generated songs. The Christian artist was prompted to address the ever-growing issues by the fact that an AI artist currently has four songs in the Top 10 of ...

The devil is in the details. An AI-generated Christian artist named Solomon Ray has taken the gospel music world by storm after topping the iTunes and Billboard charts with his album “Faithful Soul.” ...

Songs credited to an artist named Solomon Ray entered iTunes’ Top 100 Christian and gospel albums chart last week — but the hits weren’t created by a human. Ray’s voice, lyrics and persona were ...

Ray is the first AI artist to have the No. 1 album and song on any iTunes chart. What happens when music fans discover their new go-to praise and worship song, only for the song to be made by an ...

What happens when music fans discover their new go-to praise and worship song, only for the song to be made by an AI-artist? That’s the feeling some gospel fans are having as Solomon Ray, an ...

An AI-generated country song has topped Billboard‘s “Country Digital Song Sales” chart in the United States — once again highlighting how ubiquitous algorithmically generated music is becoming. The ...

Pope Leo XIV has issued his first apostolic exhortation of his young pontificate titled “Dilexi Te,” which translates “I have loved you.” Those words were spoken by Jesus Christ to those who, in the ...