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 hit their peak on the listing for the first time in 2024. So cluttered was ...

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

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 ...

On this Greatest Pop Stars podcast, we talk about our staff's year-end albums and songs lists, and how stars like Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift fared.

The top K-pop singles of 2025 with music from BLACKPINK, Stray Kids, BTS' j-hope, JENNIE, ATEEZ, NMIXX, LE SSERAFIM, aespa, CORTIS, Hwasa and more.

The 1980s were a transformative era in pop music. Musicians were moving away from the disco genre of the '70s and decided to innovate with bolder sounds. It was a time in which synthesizers, ...

Not all great pop songs are respected in their day. Just because a tune has an earworm quality, doesn’t mean that it’s thought highly of among music lovers. In fact, some tracks that have become ...

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 ...