Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Rihanna’s “Stay” with Mikky Ekko just hit 12-times platinum in the ...

One of last year's biggest songs was a skeletal, bittersweet piano duet between Rihanna and Louisiana-born Mikky Ekko, the kind of mournful, indelible crowd-pleaser that makes you feel really sad and ...

Singer-songwriter Mikky Ekko – best known as the male voice on Rihanna’s 2012 song “Stay” – hoped to capture some of what he calls the “raw emotion” of that Top 10 hit on his debut album, Time, which ...