TikTok and Billboard are collaborating on a pop music chart. TikTok Billboard Top 50 Chart is a new weekly roundup listing the most popular songs on the social platform in the US. The list debuts with ...

This year brought us new albums from some of the biggest artists in the world: Ariana Grande, Dua Lipa, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift all put out music that thrilled fans. And yet some of the most ...

This summer’s “Trap,” from M. Night Shyamalan, works hard to turn its fictional star — and her fans — into heroes. By Robert Rubsam Last fall, I went with friends to see a popular British rock band at ...

In a year of conspicuous, big-budget samples and career-spanning concert extravaganzas, pop music kept pulling us back to the past. But we also got some glimpses into a fresher future, whether in the ...

When Sabrina Carpenter was six, she watched Disney’s Hannah Montana and realized exactly who she wanted to be. From 2006 to 2011, it was impossible to avoid the phenomenon that was Hannah Montana and, ...

Modern pop music emerged in the mid-1950s in the United Kingdom and the United States. In its true form, pop music is a combination of musical types or genres. There are influences from the jazz era ...

Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That” landed with the force of an atomic bomb. Released last month, the thumping diss track hit the Billboard Hot 100 in a flash but went dynamite across X, Instagram, ...

2024 in K-pop was a whirlwind, to say the least — unexpected collabs, discussions of artist rights, idols swapping labels or creating their own, and solo efforts from the biggest stars all dominated ...

Katy Perry’s breakout moment, in the late two-thousands, had a type of frivolity and irreverence that feels difficult to summon now. Her début single, “I Kissed a Girl,” from 2008, is just what it ...

My interest in rock music never ventured much past the edge of the pop world. The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, or U2 never resonated with me on a personal level. Growing up I would hear them on the ...

Partnering with the team at Virgin is positively the right fit for us — they’ve been the most flexible and respectful of our ethos and independence," Mom + Pop founder Michael Goldstone said. By Ethan ...