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

What was the greatest decade in pop music? Well, we think that’s easily the ’60s. Motown, the Beatles, and psychedelic rock, are all game-changing moments in popular music. But the greatest single ...

I don’t want AI-generated music taking a moment of it away from me. Because it isn’t music. The utopian sales pitch that tech ...

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 ...

"There’s no good music being made today. I haven’t heard anything new that I like since college.” If that sounds like something you might say, here’s a gentle introduction to popular music 2023. We’re ...

Over the past 50 years, U.S. pop music lyrics have become simpler, more repetitive, and increasingly focused on stress and negative emotions.

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 ...

Overall, musicians made their strongest statements outside the recording studio, reflecting the growing mass opposition ...

The boundaries of pop music are amorphous, since it incorporates elements of seemingly every other genre. Yet for a genre of music that borrows from so many different traditions, there are a handful ...

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 ...

Fifty may be the new forty in some areas of life, but popular music isn’t one of them. With very few exceptions, pop musicians make their most vital work in their twenties and early thirties, and even ...