While Taylor Swift is the century’s biggest pop star by the numbers, Beyoncé tops our staff-chosen editorial list based on her full 25 years of influence, impact, evolution.

If you were hoping for the pop madness of 2024 to slow down and start making sense: good luck, babe! Because there has never, ever, been a pop year like the hot-not-pretty mess that was 2024. Week to ...

Thornton/; Todd Owyoung/NBC/; Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times/; Steve Granitz/FilmMagic, 2; Kayla Oaddams/WireImage The albums of 2024 hit us hard and soft, all year long. The music world was full of ...

Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours and Metallica’s Black Album aren’t just generational albums – they can ...

And you’ll find no Pixar or Disney live-action films here. Everything included has come from one of the 63 films produced by ...

Resumé: The biggest boy band — or pop group of any kind — at the turn of the ‘90s, using the formula manager Maurice Starr ...

As grunge set the sonic and cultural tone for popular music in the '90s, no band was more immediately impactful or iconic ...

Cover songs are a divisive topic in music, at once celebrated for their ability to bring new life to old material while also ...

Apple has revealed that Shazam has now officially surpassed over 100 billion song recognitions ... Shazam had already recognized over 1 billion songs. Apple bought Shazam in 2018.

Billboard counts down the best country acts of the past (almost) 100 years. Ever since Ralph Peer ... Those early country stars and other artists recorded songs that reflected the down-home ...

After leaving the British progressive rock band Marillion, Fish was going in a decidedly more socially conscious and ...

Picture: Alamy Rock music is no stranger to controversy ... so the "Butcher cover" was hastily withdrawn with a more boring design. The classic debut album from the pioneering New York band ...