It all comes back to pop music. Pop is the backbone not only of the music industry, but of culture in general: Nothing else connects people, defines moments and lives and passes down history from ...

All week here at Billboard, we’ve been counting down our picks for the 500 best pop songs to ever hit the Billboard Hot 100, as part of a 65th-anniversary celebration of the chart that’s been the ...

For the rest of the year, I’m ranking every Billboard #1 hit from 1964, 1974, 1984, 1994, 2004 and 2014 from worst to best in each respective year. I did this in 2023, which you can read the final ...

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 ...

A side effect of the way we listen to music in the streaming era is that it's harder than ever for new stars to break through. Or it was until 2024, anyway. This year, it felt like a page turned, the ...

Britney Spears is known as the Princess of Pop and “…Baby One More Time” is considered one of the best pop songs ever. However, Spears didn’t want her signature song to be too pop. Here’s a look at ...

It would be an understatement to say that Katy Perry’s new album, 143, has been received poorly; “empty,” “boring” and “out of time” are among the descriptors used by critics. Per review aggregator ...

The Beatles‘ “I Saw Her Standing There” is one of the best teen pop songs ever. Teen pop icon Tiffany said she’ll always sing it. Despite this, she didn’t even want to sing it in the first place.