Some of the year’s best songs were pop chart-toppers, instant classics that ruled the radio and the clubs. Others come out of ...

From unexpected pop pivots to reflections on the state of the world, these are the essential songs of the year.

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.

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

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

For at least a decade now – since Billboard started counting music streams in its chart calculations in 2013, and probably before – the sound of pop music has been sharply bifurcated between the ...

As 2025 rolls in, it's time to look back and celebrate some of the nostalgic pop songs you may have forgotten about that turn 25 this year. (Yes, we feel old.) These tracks defined the sound of 2000 — ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Yahoo News entertainment reporter, Kelsey Weekman, about a spate of new pop songs that draw on worship traditions in megachurches. ALEX WARREN: (Singing) They say the ...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a sort of renaissance happened in country music. Tons of songs from that era blended together pop elements with not-so-traditional country sounds, and some of those ...