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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On April 8, French Montana posted a video to Instagram. That alone wasn’t unusual; the rapper uses the platform as a constant promotional tool, blasting photos and clips of the good life to his more ...

As always, Sen. Bernie Sanders has become yet another beloved and overused meme, thanks to an iconic photo of him sitting and wearing mittens during President Joe Biden‘s inauguration ceremony. All ...

Music is probably in every person's life in some shape or form. Whether you listen, play, or maybe even compose, it's one of the art forms many people enjoy. 66% of Americans say they learned to play ...

Google Experiments is a showcase of the many creative ways the company's tools and resources can be used. The latest "experiment" to launch is called Voice Experiments, and it offers a variety of fun ...

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 ...

Crystal Abidin receives funding from the Australian Research Council (DE190100789). She has previously consulted for ByteDance as an independent researcher on best practices regarding the wellbeing ...