Harry Styles has a new album (and mega-residency at Madison Square Garden) on the way, and Sienna Spiro’s tearful ballad is ...

The competition is fierce. Kendrick Lamar’s dominance continues at the 2026 Grammy Awards, where he leads the nominations ...

From tradition to displacement, music carries memory and emotion across generations—often when language fails.

The drift towards more downbeat music has been long-lasting. Recent analysis in Scientific Reports found a similar pattern ...

“Strawberry Fields Forever” represented a major turning point in The Beatles’ artistic development. If there were any doubt that the lovable, innocent mop-tops era was over, this surreal, ...

We’ve reached the finale of this year’s #1 hits ranking series, and we’re ending on one of the strongest Top 5s of the whole event. It helps that I lived through all of these songs dominating radio ...

With all due respect to Mr. Diamond, who I think has some great songs in his repertoire, “Sweet Caroline” sucks. I hate it with the power of 1000 burning suns. Whatever gene that people have that ...

K-pop didn’t just dominate playlists in 2025 — it conquered the global stage. From record-breaking chart runs and sold-out stadium tours to headline-making collaborations and award nominations across ...

Shazam today announced it is rolling out a new Popular Segments feature that reveals exactly which part of a song is most popular with listeners. For example, the image above shows that the given song ...

You would be forgiven for thinking 2025 was a lackluster year for pop music. Instead of Chappell Roan galloping across the land and conquering everything in her path like a gay pop Napoleon, we had ...

To make a list is immediately to begin second-guessing it. This year that’s especially true below the Top 10, in my list of 20 runner-up albums, for which I had double that many candidates I could ...