The history of popular music can be measured in decades, genres, and chart positions. But the real milestones are the albums that shattered expectations and rewrote the rules for everyone who came ...

Justin Lewis has set out to tell a history of pop music not chronologically, but day by day from 1 January to 31 December, uncovering important – or sometimes delightfully unimportant – things that ...

What is pop music? Musicologists Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding argue in their book, Switched on Pop, that “pop isn’t a genre; it’s a marketing category that encompasses everything that is ...

Every year has its own catchy pop soundtrack, and 2026 is proving to be no exception. Brand-new songs like Harry Styles' "Aperture" and Olivia Rodrigo's "Drop Dead" have already won over pop fans in ...

Pop music reached one of its most influential eras during the early 2000s. Although critics sometimes dismissed the genre as commercial entertainment, its impact on the music industry became ...