The 1980s were a transformative era in pop music. Musicians were moving away from the disco genre of the '70s and decided to innovate with bolder sounds. It was a time in which synthesizers, ...

Shazam identifies rising artists before they break, based on early song-recognition trends. Today, the platform revealed its Fast Forward 2026 lineup.

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

YouTube Music, Apple Music, Spotify, and other music streaming services released their end-of-year recaps in December, and it's always interesting for music lovers to look back and see which songs, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Female artists took over the charts in 2024, and in 2025 they continued their winning ways — and added a new star to their lineup.

You're never too old to be a pop star, and these hard-working, iconic stars prove it. Though their careers began in the '80s — and even some in the '50s! — these pop singers are still bringing the ...

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Another song list! This one is a personal favorite of mine, because it means I get to spend a lot of time with artists I like covering other artist’s songs. Last December, Paste crowned Merce Lemon’s ...

Every year, the bounty of pop music grows more and more (my apologies to the 2,637 songs in my inbox as of time of writing that I haven't gotten to yet, out of you don't want to know how many).

The group Pentatonix are known for their a capella renditions of Christmas classics. They used to start touring after Thanksgiving, but this year they kicked off on Nov. 8. “We’re like, ‘well, we ...

Spotify announced on Wednesday that, for the first time, it’s giving users more control over the streaming service’s algorithm. That’s at least how the company is framing the launch of its new ...