The right ’70s song does more than trigger nostalgia, it feels like it could drop into a 2025 playlist without missing a beat ...

Debating the merits of today’s popular music versus the hits of the past is largely a matter of taste. But regardless of your ...

We asked our readers to vote on the worst Christmas song of all time. This song beat Paul McCartney, Lady Gage and that one ...

To understand the role of storytelling in contemporary pop music, researchers at UC Berkeley created a machine learning ...

On our just-published year-end Hot 100 chart, 11 of the top 12 songs were released before 2025, and over half of them even ...

Over the past 50 years, the lyrics of popular songs in the U.S. have become simpler, more negative, and contain more stress-related words, according to an analysis published in Scientific Reports. The ...

If you saw Kelsea Ballerini perform her song "I Sit in Parks" during November's CMA Awards and thought, "That's one of the ...

Here are 40 Christmas music classics for your playlist, from Mariah Carey to Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Joni ...

Apple Music shared its year-end global charts for 2025, revealing the two songs that dominated streaming around the world. This year’s biggest songs were Rosé and Bruno Mars ‘ “APT.” along with ...

In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...

The "Wicked: For Good" soundtrack is finally here, and with it comes the official cast recordings of two songs that are brand new to the musical. "No Place Like Home," sung by Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba ...

Here are all the songs that topped the chart this year so far. By Denise Warner A perennial holiday tune, a massive track from a former TikToker, a country-pop pairing, a movie soundtrack favorite and ...