2025 was a thrilling, wide-ranging year for pop music, from the big-budget triumphs of superstars like Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift to the mainstream arrivals of artists like Addison Rae and Olivia Dean ...

Doechii at Lincoln Hall in Chicago for her "Alligator Bites Never Heal" tour 2024 (Photo credit: Eddy "Precise" Lamarre) As spring unfolds with renewed energy and lengthening days, the musical ...

Every year, the bounty of pop music grows more and more (my apologies to the 2,637 songs in my inbox as of time of writing that I haven't gotten to yet, out of you don't want to know how many).

In 2025, she followed that towering year with Iconoclasts, an equally towering album. Its centerpiece, "Struggle With The Beast," has the year's most swaggering intro/outro by far, several minutes of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Benjamin is a New York-based writer covering global pop music. After 2024 saw the likes of RM, Rosé, NewJeans, ATEEZ, aespa, ...

Apple Music subscribers can now listen to their "Replay 2025" playlist as of today. As in previous years, this playlist ranks all of the music you've been listening to on ‌Apple Music‌ from 1 to 100, ...