BLACKPINK's JENNIE won Best Female Artist at the 2025 APMAs with multi-winners including G-Dragon, Lay Zhang, Jackson Wang, ...

This post was updated April 3 at 8:28 p.m. Now more than ever, male pop stars are hard to come by. Female artists are taking the reins and defining the current pop landscape. Pop stars such as Taylor ...

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 ...

Few musicians have more successfully navigated a full-genre crossover like Taylor Swift. Now a pop superstar, she started her career when she was in her teens with songs such as “Tim McGraw” and ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Sept. 15, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. Plenty of teenagers want to become pop stars, but few convince their parents to let them ...

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 ...

When the realities of life get hard, does music get ... happy? “Recession pop” is currently trending as people reach for the music of the mid-2000s for a mood boost. And you know what? It worked.

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 ...

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 ...