A single person, playing the guitar alone on stage in the middle of a stadium. It’s a fantasy — being an artist whose music and lyrics are simply so undeniable, so unifying, that they leap from the ...

In 2018, hip-hop’s takeover of popular music was officially complete. As streaming had replaced radio as the dominant chart-driving form of music consumption, rap blanketed the landscape to an ...

On this week's Greatest Pop Stars podcast, we talk about how A-listers like Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift fared on our Billboard year-end lists. By Andrew Unterberger It’s the most ...

Songs by BTS, Blackpink, Girls' Generation and NewJeans were listed on "The 250 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century So Far" playlist compiled not on popularity or airplay but "strictly musical ...

Max Martin, a Swedish producer and songwriter, is the mastermind behind numerous mega-hit pop songs. He's won five Grammys for songs including "Since U Been Gone" and "Can't Stop The Feeling." Taylor ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. With seven studio albums, eight compilations, six extended ...

Pop-punk music is still going strong, and look no further than Avril Lavigne’s Greatest Hits tour for proof. The Canadian singer, who broke out as a teenager in 2002 with songs like “Complicated” and ...

It's the most wonderful time of the year for music publications: year-end list season. On Billboard, we spent all of Tuesday (Dec. 9) rolling out our year-end charts, and the next two days revealing ...