Prince is back on the pop charts. So are Kate Bush and Fleetwood Mac. That can only mean one thing: Netflix’s Stranger Things ...

The first inklings of the song came to Del Rey in 2011 during a trip to California, which directly inspired the lyrics.

Two things can be true at once. K-pop is an inextricable force in global pop culture, and it has long been undercelebrated at ...

Pledge allegiance to her hands, her team, her vibes: Taylor Swift once again leads the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Award nominees ...

Even today, nearly 30 years after it first hit the airwaves, “…Baby One More Time” by Britney Spears is a definitive song in pop culture history. Spears went on to record quite a few memorable hits ...

K-pop has long been defined by scale and spectacle. In 2025, the genre balanced that reach with sharpening precision. The year’s most notable songs emphasized clarity and intention, delivering ...

Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a “Song of the Week” designation. You can hear these songs in our ongoing Best ...

Do you ever hear millennials and Gen Xers say how much they miss the early 2000s? Part of their reasoning for this feeling is due to the music that was released at that time. The year 2001 is a prime ...

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).

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

ALLDAY PROJECT’s “ONE MORE TIME” moves up two spots to become the new No. 1 song this week. Congratulations to ALLDAY PROJECT! Last week’s No. 1 song, LE SSERAFIM’s “SPAGHETTI (feat. j-hope),” dropped ...

Over the past 50 years, the lyrics of popular songs in the U.S. have become simpler, more negative, and contain more stress-related words, according to an analysis published in Scientific Reports. The ...