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

Listen to a playlist of the year's best songs as selected by The Times' August Brown, Cerys Davies and Mikael Wood.

In 2025, girl group TWICE marked their 10th anniversary since debuting with “ Like Ooh-Ahh ” under JYP Entertainment. To ...

On a breezy May evening in Los Angeles, thousands of K-pop fans mill outside the Peacock Theater. They’re waiting for rookie boy band Riize’s first US fan-concert — a hybrid mix of songs and ...

Pop music lyrics have transformed over the past 50 years, revealing troubling patterns that mirror society's mental health struggles.

As 2025 rolls in, it’s time to look back and celebrate some of the nostalgic pop songs you may have forgotten about that turn 25 this year. (Yes, we feel old.) These tracks defined the sound of 2000 — ...

Researchers find these songs get stuck in your head. — -- From Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off," to Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time," to “Mambo No 5,” to Rihanna's "Umbrella," they are the pop ...

The pop songs you love might feel so catchy they’re magic, but their ability to get stuck in your head isn’t fairy dust and sparkles: it’s melodic math. Music researchers use melodic math to refer to ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

Sounds from the 1980s appear in modern pop songs all the time. Everyone from Lady Gaga to Taylor Swift has made hits with the vintage synths and drum machines that defined the neon decade. Chasing ...

As 2025 rolls in, it's time to look back and celebrate some of the nostalgic pop songs you may have forgotten about that turn 25 this year. (Yes, we feel old.) These tracks defined the sound of 2000 — ...