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 ...

When Hip Hop meets pop, the result is often pure magic. Some of the most memorable moments in music come from when a rap verse jumps into a pop track, adding a fresh layer of attitude, energy, and ...

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 — ...

All-night-long parties, bonfires and whiskey, belting karaoke: In their new single, Kesha and T-Pain may have single-handedly heralded the return of recession pop. “Yippee-Ki-Yay," released March 27, ...

For at least a decade now – since Billboard started counting music streams in its chart calculations in 2013, and probably before – the sound of pop music has been sharply bifurcated between the ...

Here is the best pop song by 10 classic (1970s) progressive rock bands! Given that progressive rock artists love to create really long songs with virtuosic playing and fantastical concepts, you’d ...

What's on your best K-pop songs of 2024 list? Maybe you followed the ongoing girl group renaissance to new music from NMIXX and aespa, with a sprinkle of ILLIT's debut. Maybe you embraced exciting ...

Pop songs get “popular” for a reason. Quite a few gorgeous, catchy, earworm hits through the years have topped the charts because they’re just so good, exactly the way they are. However, I think a few ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Benjamin is a New York-based writer covering global pop music. Netflix’s animated smash film KPop Demon Hunters has taken ...

A great K-pop song surprises you. It doesn’t whisper its intentions; it shouts them in multiple languages with a dance break in the middle. And in Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters, those songs also have ...