What starts as the story of a legendary songwriter quickly becomes a full exploration of how Carole King helped reinvent popular music in the 1970s. After years spent inside New York’s Brill Building ...
Artists like Post Malone, Zayn, the Pussycat Dolls, and Meghan Trainor have canceled tours, yet other artists are still ...
This year brought us new albums from some of the biggest artists in the world: Ariana Grande, Dua Lipa, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift all put out music that thrilled fans. And yet some of the most ...
The temperatures are warming, the windows opening, and a pop or pop-adjacent album is being released every week. This year’s song-of-summer bracket promises bops and bangers of all types, fit for many ...
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 ...
A new book by veteran journalist Barry Walters covers LGBTQ and LGBTQ-adjacent musicians spanning the decades.
Our first of five episodes in a special Janet Jackson theme week of our 'Vintage Pop Stardom' series begins in '86 with key ...
A study of the top five Billboard songs every year from 1950 to 2023—a list that includes hits like “Hey Jude” by the Beatles, “Vogue” by Madonna and “Poker Face” by Lady Gaga—found that popular ...