I don’t want AI-generated music taking a moment of it away from me. Because it isn’t music. The utopian sales pitch that tech ...

Female artists took over the charts in 2024, and in 2025 they continued their winning ways — and added a new star to their ...

My 2025 10-best list is heavy on storytelling songwriters of all stripes, from country to rock to hip-hop to dance-pop. The Brooklyn band that is hyped as the future of rock is on it, as is the ...

Over the past 50 years, U.S. pop music lyrics have become simpler, more repetitive, and increasingly focused on stress and negative emotions.

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Artists like Jessie Murph and songwriters like Laura Veltz and Ben Johnson highlight Nashville's soulful pop melding with ...

As pop-music thrives across the world, explore the rise of I-pop in 2025, highlighting emerging artists and their impact on ...

And you’ll never stop singing them. I mentioned glossy production, but George Michael went in the opposite direction on one of his biggest hits, “Faith”. Opting for a dry, raw mix, he said “Faith” was ...

These pop albums might have "flopped" critically and not commercially, but the hate they got back in the day was totally ...

Katy Perry’s breakout moment, in the late two-thousands, had a type of frivolity and irreverence that feels difficult to summon now. Her début single, “I Kissed a Girl,” from 2008, is just what it ...

Blending haunting visuals with undeniable pop soundscapes, horror-inspired music videos have become a staple of the Halloween season. From unsettling imagery to gothic aesthetics, these videos use the ...

On a breezy May evening in Los Angeles, thousands of K-pop fans mill outside the Peacock Theater. They’re waiting for rookie boy band Riize’s first US fan-concert — a hybrid mix of songs and ...