This post was updated April 3 at 8:28 p.m. Now more than ever, male pop stars are hard to come by. Female artists are taking the reins and defining the current pop landscape. Pop stars such as Taylor ...

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 ...

When the realities of life get hard, does music get ... happy? “Recession pop” is currently trending as people reach for the music of the mid-2000s for a mood boost. And you know what? It worked.

You hear them everywhere. Songs like "Manchild" by Sabrina Carpenter, "The Fate of Ophelia" by Taylor Swift and "The Subway" by Chappell Roan are all over the radio and continue to top charts. Today's ...

The chart-topping Japanese act, known for adapting novels into music, say they’re hopeful for the future of J-Pop globally: “I hope that we can continue to create great music for the world to enjoy.” ...

Justin Lewis has set out to tell a history of pop music not chronologically, but day by day from 1 January to 31 December, uncovering important – or sometimes delightfully unimportant – things that ...

The influence of The Beatles on the music industry is undeniable, but sometimes people don't realize just how much they still affect everything around us. Plenty of young artists still acknowledge the ...

When 5 Seconds of Summer were invited to join the nostalgia-heavy When We Were Young Festival in 2023, their immediate response was an eager yes. They likely would have ended up on the Las Vegas ...

Global recorded music revenues have grown for the 10th consecutive year, reaching $29.6 billion in 2024. The influence of the Nashville-based country industry's boom is now being seen in pop music ...

On the surface, the often clean-imaged Korean music industry might not seem like the best fit for the often raunchy and explicit hip-hop genre. However, there’s more to both than meets the eye. Korean ...