The Year In Music

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    Music stars we lost in 2017

    2017 was another very rough year for music fans, as we said goodbye to legends like Chuck Berry, Chris Cornell, Gregg Allman, Chester Bennington, Glen Campbell, Tom Petty, David Cassidy, and many others.

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    The best music videos of 2017

    Many music videos are slick, soulless, product-placement-crammed promos, but some transcend crass commercialism and stand alone as true works of visual art.

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    10 new artists to watch in 2018

    Though 2018 has yet to begin, the music industry already has big plans for its latest stars-in-waiting. In the pipeline are a wide range of promising artists, armed with songs and sounds that draw on established styles only to twist them with their own quirks.

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    The best albums of 2017: Yahoo Entertainment staff picks

    2017 was a wildly diverse year, featuring strong women in pop like St. Vincent and Lorde; career reinventions for Harry Styles and comeback queen Kesha; and zeitgeist-capturing hip-hop opuses from Jay-Z and our No. 1 artist, Kendrick Lamar.

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    Music's chart winners and losers of 2017

    Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, and Kendrick Lamar all set enviable records in 2017, but such veteran hit-makers as Fergie, Katy Perry, and Miley Cyrus set records they would probably just as soon forget.

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    See Chrissy Metz rap battle Jesse Tyler Ferguson in 'Drop the Mic' sneak peek

    Diss Me, Kate! The “This Is Us” star rhymes about the “Modern Family” actor's bow ties and Emmy losses in the Dec. 19 episode.

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    From SZA to Sampha: The 10 best new artists of 2017

    From Luke Combs's new-school country to SZA's innovative hip-hop, this year a wealth of new artists shook our assumptions about what modern music should sound like.