(KTLA) — Pop culturally, the year tends to wrap up by early December, at least with music. Few artists want to drop anything they care about amid the holiday rush and the domination of holiday music.

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars had the biggest pop hit of 2025 with "Die With A Smile," their duet featured on Gaga's Grammy-nominated album MAYHEM that dropped in March. Rising artist Alex Warren followed ...

The power of a lasting song is that it breaks free of its origins. Hits should be more than celebrity narratives. By Jon Pareles The megahits of 2024 were inseparable from their back stories. And that ...

Pop music continues to be one of the most dominant genres across Billboard charts, radio airwaves, award shows, and live performances. Since we're just over five years into the 2020s, this new decade ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Benjamin is a New York-based writer covering global pop music. ROSÉ performs "APT." live with Bruno Mars at the 2024 MAMA ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Yahoo News entertainment reporter, Kelsey Weekman, about a spate of new pop songs that draw on worship traditions in megachurches. ALEX WARREN: (Singing) They say the ...

You may have heard of recession meals and wardrobes. Now, we have "recession pop" - bangers from 2008-2010 gaining popularity with a younger audience. Let me take you back to the fall of 2008. The ...