Debating the merits of today’s popular music versus the hits of the past is largely a matter of taste. But regardless of your ...

Santana seemed destined for a long chart drought. And then "Winning" came along and changed their fortunes in a hurry.

“Untouched” has one of the catchiest hooks in pop music history. From the first note, the song grabs your attention and sticks with you. The chorus is upbeat, powerful, and unforgettable. It’s the ...

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

Music critics—myself included—have spent much of the past several years bemoaning the decline of capital-“E” Events in music: no new superstars to crown, no more tentpole albums to unify us, no more ...

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 ...

Over the past 50 years, the lyrics of popular songs in the U.S. have become simpler, more negative, and contain more stress-related words, according to an analysis published in Scientific Reports. The ...

There's a Christmas song for all tastes – jolly to melancholy – so corralling them into one list is not only futile, but ...