Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.

Noah Hawley gets a lot of things right in his latest Alien spin-off series, Alien: Earth, and the songs are a big part of it. If you’ve paid close attention, you’ll know that the show is utilizing ...

Brockhampton are no strangers to weird music videos, but their new clip for “Sugar” might be their most surreal one yet. Directed (as many of their videos are) by band leader Kevin Abstract, the short ...

Last fall, the students in one of my writing classes alerted me to a wildly popular YouTube channel, run by an organization called Chillhop Music. The channel’s description was gentle, unassuming: “We ...