I remember when I first heard about Madison Beer. It was 2012, and I was deep in the pop blogging mines, scrolling Google Reader under the eye of a life-size Justin Bieber cutout. The Western world ...

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Ridley Scott’s masterpiece Blade Runner featured a plot device called the Voight-Kampff test. It was a psychological test ...

Stretched-out, ’90s-style indie rock — the sprawling kind that cozies up to post-rock — has long been a North American ...

ABBA's “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” debuts on a Billboard chart more than 40 years after its release. Picture taken in 1974 in Stockholm shows the Swedish pop group Abba with its ...

We’ve reached the finale of this year’s #1 hits ranking series, and we’re ending on one of the strongest Top 5s of the whole event. It helps that I lived through all of these songs dominating radio ...

Did Elvis Presley write any of his own songs? The answer to this is yes and no. Officially, Elvis is listed as a co-writer on a number of songs from the early part of his career, sharing credit with ...

While Heart boasted a string of hits in the 1970s and early 80s, including tracks like “Magic Man” and “Barracuda”, their 1986 song “These Dreams” marked the group’s first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot ...

It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...

This year in music had no shortage of hits, but only a handful of songs truly rose above the rest. Whether they dominated the charts, took over social media or just refused to leave our heads, these ...

In 2025, the Nigerian music industry was supercharged with a collection of hit songs that tell the story of ambition and hold the power of superstardom. In Afrobeats, hit records are the vehicle that ...