Holiday music rules the pop charts once again this week, as Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" scores its 17th ...

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2024 was a year that saw the global artist community push the boundaries of electronic music like never before, flooding the ...

MPR News host Angela Davis revisits a conversation with Pioneer Press pop music critic Ross Raihala and his partner Patric ...

A musical year with hits from Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar and breakouts by Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter ...

One of the best power ballads of all time. If the feelings evoked around the holiday season could be bottled up and sold, “Christmas Time Is Here” would be the song to choose.

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 ... so here’s our top 40 countdown ...

Conan Gray, JADE, Remi Wolf and many more served up pop ... music also spotted the many gems beneath the headliners, as several of the most compelling songs of the year could be found outside of ...

There’s exactly one criterion for a great performance of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”: Is it joyful? The tune is peak Christmas cheer, a song about the childlike glee the season can bring. It came ...

Thanks to the power of social media and film syncs ... and it became a sleeper hit, climbing to the top of the Billboard Pop Songs chart over a stretch of 26 weeks. Nelly Furtado’s “I ...

From Charli XCX giving us a "Brat" summer to Shaboozey getting us to hand clap along to "A Bar Song (Tipsy)," much liveliness reigned in music in 2024. Even a couple of newcomers – Benson Boone ...