In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m back ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter ...

Such traditional pop singers as Johnny Mathis and Andy Williams covered “Song Sung Blue” on 1972 albums. Eight years later, ...

For all the nay-sayers and Scrooges out there, Christmas pop is an annual scourge of the high street and TV advertising from ...

Over the course of the past seven years, the 33-year-old songwriter has been a key player in defining today’s pop landscape, co-writing iconic songs like Harry Styles’ “Adore You,” Sabrina Carpenter ...

The new millennium was a wild time for music, and quite a few killer songs from 1999 have been forgotten and lost to time.

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

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

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 ...

Santa Can’t You Hear Me” by Kelly Clarkson and Ariana Grande debuts on Billboard's Streaming Songs chart, doubling Clarkson's ...

These rock songs from 1972 missed the top spot on the Hot 100 chart. That still doesn't make sense to me, as these hits are ...

Having a bad day? These ’80s songs are perfect for a good cry It’s undeniable that the ’80s produced some of the most ...

Lady Gaga has cemented herself as one of the most iconic artists of her generation. Her skillset has grown in recent years as ...