Short for "popular" music, pop music has evolved over the decades, morphing from 1950s rock and roll to today's eclectic mix of contemporary folk, rock, dance, country, urban, and Latin elements.

This year brought us new albums from some of the biggest artists in the world: Ariana Grande, Dua Lipa, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift all put out music that thrilled fans. And yet some of the most ...

TikTok and Billboard are collaborating on a pop music chart. TikTok Billboard Top 50 Chart is a new weekly roundup listing the most popular songs on the social platform in the US. The list debuts with ...

Modern pop music emerged in the mid-1950s in the United Kingdom and the United States. In its true form, pop music is a combination of musical types or genres. There are influences from the jazz era ...

Just as any world-class pop star undergoes myriad reinventions over the course of their career, Coachella has evolved drastically from its 1999 roots. The first iteration of Coachella, headlined by ...

The story of the last 15 years of popular music can't be told without a significant focus on the rise of Korean pop from a powerful but largely isolated industry to a border-crossing global megaforce.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the ...

This summer’s “Trap,” from M. Night Shyamalan, works hard to turn its fictional star — and her fans — into heroes. By Robert Rubsam Last fall, I went with friends to see a popular British rock band at ...

My interest in rock music never ventured much past the edge of the pop world. The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, or U2 never resonated with me on a personal level. Growing up I would hear them on the ...

Katy Perry’s breakout moment, in the late two-thousands, had a type of frivolity and irreverence that feels difficult to summon now. Her début single, “I Kissed a Girl,” from 2008, is just what it ...

The most improbably successful tunesmith in the U.S. last week was a genial, buckskin-fringed character out of Timbo, Ark. (pop. 100) named Jimmie Driftwood. Six Driftwood royalty-winners—Soldier’s ...