Pop music continues to evolve year after year. In CBC Music's list of the top pop songs of 2025, you'll find a range of ...

On this week's Greatest Pop Stars podcast, we talk about how A-listers like Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift ...

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

Modern pop songs are more negative than tracks made 50 years ago, a study shows. References to stress and negative sentiment ...

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 ...

A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...

Over the past 50 years, the lyrics of popular songs in the U.S. have become simpler, more negative, and contain more ...

Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1990s, I listened to soul singer-turned-R&B sex symbol Teddy Pendergrass and other artists who defined the Sound of Philadelphia. Now, as a professor of ethnic ...

Pop songs get “popular” for a reason. Quite a few gorgeous, catchy, earworm hits through the years have topped the charts because they’re just so good, exactly the way they are. However, I think a few ...

These somewhat forgotten songs from 1993 have slipped through the cracks, and too many modern-day listeners have never heard ...

Can you name these ’70s pop hits from a single line? The 1970s represented a vibrant and extraordinarily diverse era for popular music, producing an incredible range of sounds that reflected the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Benjamin is a New York-based writer covering global pop music. Netflix’s animated smash film KPop Demon Hunters has taken ...