Bob Dylan's Idiot Wind reveals the hidden pain behind one of his most acclaimed songs, as personal betrayal fuels a brutally ...

Fall might be right around the corner, but not everyone is ready to leave this summer or its soundtrack in the rearview mirror. The conversation surrounding this year's song of summer began early, ...

For the second week in a row, the Top 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 are packed with holiday perennials ... and Kendrick Lamar. With Christmas songs filling the entire Top 5 — and Mariah Carey ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Pam Windsor lives in Nashville, Tennessee and writes about music. Nearly 50 years after his death, Elvis Presley is still the King ...

Sequel songs that continue the story of a previously successful song can be hit or miss. This handful of songs, sadly, were misses.

What makes a song of the summer? Is it pop perfection? A sick beat? Radio dominance? Last week, we took a data-driven look at the season’s biggest songs; now, we present the songs the Rolling Stone ...

As the temperature outside heats up, so does the chatter around the “song of the summer” — the unofficial name for the track that becomes inescapable between Memorial Day and Labor Day. The song of ...

English rock band the Cure released Songs of a Lost World, its first album in 16 years, on Nov. 1, strategically timing the launch to coincide with Halloween. The release stirred excitement among its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. With seven studio albums, eight compilations, six extended ...

This same concept applies to figure skating, a sport in which each athlete intentionally chooses a song corresponding with ...