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

Modern pop music emerged in the mid-1950s in the United Kingdom and the United States. In its true form, pop music is a combination of musical types or genres. There are influences from the jazz era ...

Pop music lyrics have transformed over the past 50 years, revealing troubling patterns that mirror society's mental health struggles.

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars had the biggest pop hit of 2025 with "Die With A Smile," their duet featured on Gaga's Grammy-nominated album MAYHEM that dropped in March. Rising artist Alex Warren followed ...

The year is almost over, and pop music fans have received some of the best pop albums ever in 2024. These albums have defined 2024 and opened up entirely new soundscapes for listeners. Meanwhile, in ...

Pop music continues to be one of the most dominant genres across Billboard charts, radio airwaves, award shows, and live performances. Since we're just over five years into the 2020s, this new decade ...

The 2010s were an interesting time for pop music. This decade had shed the sexy outer layer, the anything goes attitude of the 2000s. It was a time for easily consumable radio hits and, in some cases, ...

A new data report is out on global music streaming with women dominating the pop music chart and winning seven of the top 10 spots. The artists include Taylor Swift, who takes home the top spot, ...

The year is 2008, and the Great Recession has settled in. With the bursting of the housing bubble, the collapse of major investment banks like Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, as well as the rise in ...

Alright, Bob Dylan‘s “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” might not be orthodox folk music, but it certainly falls into the genre category, for numerous reasons. Nevertheless, this single had its sights set on ...

Madonna is one of the all-time greatest female artists, with some of the top hits of the '80s, '90s and beyond. Madonna Louise Ciccone, aka the Queen of Pop, is one of the most successful musical ...

In the world of pop music artists, any list of the most popular names can and will change frequently. One day, you’re hot, and the next, you’re falling off the charts. However, this isn’t to say that ...