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      Radio Disney, Launching Pad for Young Stars, Will Shut Down Next Year

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      AdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyRadio Disney, Launching Pad for Young Stars, Will Shut Down Next YearSince 1996, the network has been a go-to music destination for preteens and helped jump-start the careers of future superstars. Disney said it was ending it to focus on streaming and TV.Selena Gomez at the 2014 Radio Disney Music Awards. The network boosted the music careers of several young Disney Channel stars.Credit…Michael Yada/Disney ChannelBy More

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      How the Avalanches Put Themselves Back Together Again

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      #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }The Best of 2020Best MoviesBest TV ShowsBest BooksBest TheaterBest AlbumsAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyHow the Avalanches Put Themselves Back Together AgainThe Australian group known for its sample-heavy music paused for 16 years between its first two albums. Sobriety, and an ambitious new set of inspirations, fuel its latest LP, “We Will Always Love You.”Tony Di Blasi and Robbie Chater of the Avalanches. The band is returning with its third album in December.Credit…Atong Atem for The New York TimesBy More

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      How to Pretend You’re in Tokyo

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      #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }What to WatchBest Movies on NetflixBest of Disney PlusClassic Holiday MoviesHoliday TVBest Netflix DocumentariesCredit…Noriko Hayashi for The New York TimesHow to Pretend You’re in TokyoThat Tokyo trip will have to wait for the millions of people who canceled flights and hotel bookings. But there are ways to bring you closer to this sometimes impenetrable, always fascinating, city.Credit…Noriko Hayashi for The New York TimesSupported byContinue reading the main storyBy More

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      Ray Davies on 50 Years of ‘Lola’

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      AdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyRay Davies on 50 Years of ‘Lola’Two years before an official Gay Pride rally arrived in the United Kingdom, the Kinks released one of pop’s first big hits with an L.G.B.T. theme.The Kinks’ “Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One,” the album that contained their enduring hit “Lola,” turned 50 this year.Credit…Jack Robinson/Hulton Archive, via Getty ImagesBy More

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      Miley Cyrus Finally Embraces Her Rock ’n’ Roll Heart

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      #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }The Best of 2020Best TV ShowsBest DanceBest TheatreBest AlbumsAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyAlbum ReviewMiley Cyrus Finally Embraces Her Rock ’n’ Roll HeartThe musical shape-shifter has made pop, country, hip-hop and psychedelic-flavored albums. On “Plastic Hearts,” she bends the glorious excess of ’80s rock to her whims.Miley Cyrus has a voice (and an appetite for over-the-top aesthetics) well suited for throwback rock.Credit…Vijat MohindraBy More

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      BTS Debuts at No. 1, and CDs Play a Major Role

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      The music industry has a hot new format, one that can generate huge sales, demonstrate fan loyalty and dominate the weekly charts.It’s called the compact disc.This week, the K-pop superstars BTS opened at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart for the fifth time with their latest release, “Be,” which had the equivalent of 242,000 sales in the United States, according to Nielsen Music. Of that total, 177,000 were for copies sold of the eight-song LP as a complete album. Two versions were available: a $9 digital download and a $51 “deluxe edition” CD that came with a photo book, seven postcards, a poster and other goodies.Last week, AC/DC topped the chart with a similar strategy, selling its latest CD, “Power Up,” in a $49 box that displayed the band’s logo in neon and played a guitar riff from a built-in speaker.The CD format has been dying a slow death for years. In 2019, just 52 million albums were sold on CD in the United States, down from a peak of 943 million in 2000, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. But some acts, like BTS, have found ways to move discs by super-serving fans with collectible packages, even as streaming remains the default format for most listeners. In its opening week, “Be” had 49 million streams.The loyalty and promotional power of BTS’s fans is so great that it was considered a major factor in the success of a $4 billion initial public offering this fall by Big Hit Entertainment, the South Korean management company behind the band. (Big Hit derives almost 90 percent of its revenue from BTS.)Megan Thee Stallion’s “Good News” opened at No. 2 with the equivalent of just over 100,000 sales, including 116 million streams. Last week, BTS and Megan Thee Stallion received their first Grammy nominations. BTS got one nod and Megan had four, including best new artist and record of the year for “Savage.”Ariana Grande’s “Positions” is in third place, while Pop Smoke’s “Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon” is No. 4; Future and Lil Uzi Vert’s “Pluto x Baby Pluto” fell three spots to No. 5 in its second week out.Taylor Swift’s “Folklore” rose 23 spots to No. 6, after the LP’s vinyl version went on sale in Target stores and her new film, “Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions,” began streaming on Disney+. (Swift is up for six Grammy nominations, including album of the year.) More