With this in mind, here are KTLA’s 50 best songs of 2025, an unranked list for which I began working on in October and have made adjustments as needed. While the “best”-ness of these tracks is, ...

Debating the merits of today’s popular music versus the hits of the past is largely a matter of taste. But regardless of your ...

Modern pop songs are more negative than tracks made 50 years ago, a study shows. References to stress and negative sentiment have become more common in modern songs, according to an analysis of 20,000 ...

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 ...

The research team say it could be due to more positive and complex music being used as a "form of escapism" during stressful ...

I’m not sure if you’re aware, but the summer of 2024 was the summer of pop music. Sabrina Carpenter taught us about me-espresso, Chappell Roan had everyone (even VIP) learning how to spell ...

The 1980s were a transformative era in pop music. Musicians were moving away from the disco genre of the '70s and decided to innovate with bolder sounds. It was a time in which synthesizers, ...

Do you remember 1999? Do you remember the lead-up to 1999? There was a massive fear that the computer programs that only used two digits for the year (think: 97 for 1997) would go bust when the ...