Why is this code not running?

Yes, just placing an emply array [] was the right way to proceed to the task.

Not sure what you are trying to do here: Can you throw down some info or code on what the exercise is?

If, as Muhammad said it's creating an empty string, then "songs" : (colon) [] won't do it.

You need to define 'something' as the empty array, more like this....

something = (equals) 'empty array'

the empty square brackets should work for the empty array, it's the "songs" : part that doesn't look right.

Also, "" (quotation marks) usually denote the contents of a string. If you are defining the array you wouldn't use "" around it's name to create it

Just adding that I went back and looked at the assignment. My info was about creating an array for a javascript file.

The question pertained to creating a JSON file with the .json extension...

No need to define variables there... as M Fitri said