Modern pop music emerged in the mid-1950s in the United Kingdom and the United States. In its true form, pop music is a combination of musical types or genres. There are influences from the jazz era ...

Short for "popular" music, pop music has evolved over the decades, morphing from 1950s rock and roll to today's eclectic mix of contemporary folk, rock, dance, country, urban, and Latin elements.

The boundaries of pop music are amorphous, since it incorporates elements of seemingly every other genre. Yet for a genre of music that borrows from so many different traditions, there are a handful ...

Pop music as a genre has changed dramatically since the 1950s. The Beatles were considered pop music, but so was Michael Jackson. Artists have blended genres for decades. R&B was no longer easily ...

Earlier this year, burgeoning British pop star Rachel Chinouriri shared a heartfelt and heartwrenching post with her followers on X. She’d just opened for Sabrina Carpenter’s European tour, meeting ...

The Lifetime Career Achievement honor and the top award went to Lorrie Morgan. The 66-year-old country singer, a top country ...

Penning a series of pop hits from such an early age, George Michael had a sixth sense when it came to identifying a ...

TikTok and Billboard are collaborating on a pop music chart. TikTok Billboard Top 50 Chart is a new weekly roundup listing the most popular songs on the social platform in the US. The list debuts with ...

The singer extols the joys, the pain and the let's face it, absolute awesomeness of being a pop icon, except when none of ...

Sam Whiting receives funding from RMIT University and the Winston Churchill Trust. Predictions for this year’s Hottest 100 countdown revealed an interesting trend that has come to dominate popular ...

The 1960s were one of the most important decades in music history. It was a time when artists broke new ground and changed how people listened to music. This era gave birth to powerful rock bands, ...

In the world of pop music artists, any list of the most popular names can and will change frequently. One day, you’re hot, and the next, you’re falling off the charts. However, this isn’t to say that ...