As featured in ELLE’s best songs of April 2025: “Moody and bass-y, the verses of The Marías’ latest single creep in with lead ...

Songs about love, sex, tax and demon hunters ranked among the best music of 2025, according to a "poll of polls" conducted by ...

From j-hope, BLACKPINK and ATEEZ's Billboard Hot 100 hits to career-defining tracks from HWASA, DAY6, JENNIE, JUSTB, DAYOUNG, ...

A glance at some of those chart-toppers in 2025, including Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” Sabrina Carpenter ’s “Manchild,” Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” Huntrix’s “Golden” and Taylor Swift ’s “The Fate of ...

K-pop didn’t just dominate playlists in 2025 — it conquered the global stage. From record-breaking chart runs and sold-out ...

Modern pop songs are more negative than tracks made 50 years ago, a study shows. References to stress and negative sentiment ...

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 ...

Debating the merits of today’s popular music versus the hits of the past is largely a matter of taste. But regardless of your opinion on the subject, one thing is clear: pop music is objectively ...

On a breezy May evening in Los Angeles, thousands of K-pop fans mill outside the Peacock Theater. They’re waiting for rookie boy band Riize’s first US fan-concert — a hybrid mix of songs and ...

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 ...

It’s Australia’s Great Poptism Era. After decades of our rock stars commanding the world’s stages and airwaves, and industry ...