Discovering the new hype songs all over the internet would normally take a few steps on platforms, but Apple wants to change that on Apple Music and Shazam with the latest "Viral" playlist feature.

In an unprecedented move that’s becoming increasingly “precedented” in our modern political climate, the U.S. government has banned TikTok. There was some backstage politicking and talk of last-minute ...

Jazmin Kylene is a Miami-bred writer and editor with a decade-long career that spans all editorial genres, though she has a particular passion for music journalism. Upon graduating Florida Atlantic ...

Ah, viral sensations. The internet changed the world in some good and bad ways. And its ability to catapult certain songs to international fame is definitely somewhere in the middle. Some viral hit ...

Apple is launching a new global Viral Chart playlist in Apple Music that consists of tracks people are discovering through the company’s Shazam service. The playlist, which is updated daily, shows the ...

TikTok has boosted the careers of numerous musicians, thanks to their songs—both new and old—going viral. The latest example is Connie Francis’s 1962 hit Pretty Little Baby, which is currently ...

TikTok often popularizes songs from music’s biggest and buzziest artists. But one of the most viral songs right now was recorded in 1961. More than six decades ago, singer Connie Francis recorded ...

Spotify will allow users to customize their top 5 artists and songs in this year’s Wrapped for the first time. The viral ...

These terrible Tinder conversations are striking the right note. Music producer Luke Holloway is taking the awkward and shocking exchanges on the popular dating app and turning them into tunes on ...

Artists have little control over which of their songs go viral and when, which is something Radiohead learned after discovering a song that almost broke up the band in the late 1990s had become a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John Brandon covers social media trends. @johnbrandonmn The question to answer right away is: What does it mean to go viral on ...