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Big Game Energy

Watch Usher’s Super Bowl 2024 Halftime Show

“Yeah!” singer Usher took the stage at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas to cram 30 years of hits into 13 minutes of performing in the middle of Super Bowl 2024.

Angela Watercutter

The Monitor

Taylor Swift Will Define Super Bowl 2024 Just by Showing Up

Angela Watercutter

Ticked Off

TikTok’s Missing Music Is Making Users Very Upset

Reece Rogers

Blank Space

Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theorists Get Psyops All Wrong

Justin Ling

Rip Tide

Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way—Especially From YouTube

Angela Watercutter

Record Scratch

Why So Many TikTok Videos Don't Have Sound Anymore

Reece Rogers

Swift Response

If Taylor Swift Can’t Defeat Deepfake Porn, No One Can

Amanda Hoover

Music

What SoundCloud Created Can Never Die

Jason Parham

Spin Cycle

What’s the Value of 3 Million LPs in a Digital World?

Marah Eakin

Year in Review

The 10 Best Albums of 2023

David Renshaw

LiveWIRED

Tierra Whack Doesn’t Want Her Creativity Boxed In

Jason Parham

Conspiracies

Taylor Swift, QAnon, and the Political Weaponization of Fandom

Angela Watercutter

Skip

Spotify Is Screwed

Amanda Hoover

The Monitor

‘Authentic’ Is the Word of the Year. You Read That Right

Angela Watercutter

Listen Up

Spotify Wrapped Is Back Again. Are You a Vampire or a Shape Shifter?

Amanda Hoover

Scratch That

How to Have the Best Record Store Day

Orlando Mendiola

Rock the Cashbot

Johnny Cash's Taylor Swift Cover Predicts the Boring Future of AI Music

Kate Knibbs

Big Reputations

Taylor Swift and Beyoncé Are Resurrecting the American Movie Theater

Angela Watercutter

WIRED Q&A

U2’s The Edge on The Sphere’s Opening Night: ‘This Is Definitely Working’

Steven Levy

The Monitor

The Truth About the Taylor Swift, Jets Game, Google Search Conspiracy Theory

Angela Watercutter

Live Stream

How TikTok Is Changing Stage Design

Will Pritchard

WIRED30

Hannah Diamond Has Cracked the Code of Using AI for Music

Will Bedingfield

Lost in Translation

Voice Actors Are Bracing to Compete With Talking AI

Amanda Hoover